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Margaret Thatcher

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.

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Thatcher argues that socialist governments tend to make a financial mess. In her view, they always run out of other people's money. It's a sharp political jab, delivered as a broad claim about how such governments behave.

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