"The principle of voluntary government financing rests on the following premises: that the government is not the owner of the citizens' income and, therefore, cannot hold a blank check on that income--that the nature of the proper governmental services must be constitutionally defined and delimited, leaving the government no power to enlarge the scope of its services at its own arbitrary discretion. -  The Virtue of Selfishness"

Big government republicans like L.Brooks Patterson and Rick Snyder just don't get it.