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Representative democracy cannot subsist if a great part of the voters are on the government pay roll. If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.
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https://mises.org/library/whats-so-great-about-representative-government
from L. von Mises "Bureaucracy" New Haven, Yale University Press, 1944 p. 81