I thought about tagging this thread with the tPF feature. I didn't. I should have.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.“ - Benjamin Franklin.
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss. ― Michael Joseph Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays