rs, unlike their private counterparts, must factor interest groups into every equation. The fact that governments may raise money by taxation while businesses do so when customers buy products or services of their own free will shows why the public focuses so intensely on the cost of government services to exert as much control as possible--they want to dictate how much the bureaucrats spend on every item to prevent waste, misuse, or theft of the taxpayers' money. The authors note that another consequences is that public employees view risks and rewards very differently than do private employees. In government, the incentive
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