What was that Marx quote?
A republic will last only until the people discover they can vote themselves money from the public treasury.............
That was a Jefferson quote. That’s why they hate him. He knew what was stewing in the loins of idiots about the country.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/465.Alexis_de_Tocqueville
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville