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When your child earns his first money for ice cream, do the following: 1. Before he has a chance to lick his ice cream, snatch it from him and bite off 20%.
2. While your child stares at you in amazement, take another 30% bite.
Then give him the rest of the ice cream and explain that this is what the state does with all the money someone earns.
And that this will be the case with every ice cream he buys for himself.
And that the percentage of the bite can be reduced by grabbing the biteer by the hand and demanding to know why they are taking so many bites.
If every parent does this, there is hope that a generation of people will grow up in this country who will understand that the government doesn't have its own money - it only has taxpayer money.
And that taxpayers not only can, but should, monitor how government officials spend their money."
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Margaret Thatcher (British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990).
