SamuelRSmith on 13 January 2013
| Mr Khan said: That's not profiteering. Profiteering is about making money on stuff. You're talking about pork. Employees of the state can profiteer off of things like the War on Terror, but the State as a whole draws no revenue from rounding up terrorists or conducting warrantless wiretaps or what have you. |
What's on earth's "the state overall"? Governments, like all other organisations, are just collections of people. Corporations don't profit. States don't profit. The people involved do.
