Well, it’s that magical season again. No, I don’t mean the holidays. I’m referring to election season, where politicians promise the magic of lowering taxes while expanding government services. Years of such pandering has bred an infantile expectation among citizens who see nothing contradictory about wanting to keep more of their paycheck and demanding that government solve all of their problems at the same time. Reasonable people can disagree on the appropriate level of taxes and government services. Reasonable people cannot disagree that some linkage must exist between the two. All things have a cost.