The One Thing.
prof. Hale, G-d love him, is trying really really hard to tell me all the wonderful things Government does for us! Which is of course not the point, the point being that Government produces nothing of any value, it is and has always been and will always be a net consumer; it consumes our taxes, skims a chunk off for itself, and then spends whatever is left over- mostly, to keep the Free Shit Army happy.
Now, the government “Makes” money, in regard to the actual minting of cash, but it actually produces only one thing. Can anyone guess what that one thing is? I bet the vast majority of my readers will get it in one guess.
Debt.

Taxes are earned by the little people collected at the point of a gun and spent by our self proclaimed betters.
When the feds do not get enough taxes they just start printing more money. Not that they would not stop at adding lead to the gold.
I’m not sure how we will get them to stop beating the poor lame horse but I think we need to tell them to stop their shit. Before they kill the horse.
I was gonna say “More of Itself”, but debt works.
Dependency was my answer. I suppose that translates into Dave’s answer of “More if Itself”.
“More of Itself”. Not enough coffee yet to keep my eyelids up, I guess.