We are now a people of the government, for the government, by the government

"...so that we are now a people of the government, for the government, by the government—by a strange but characteristic British locution. When, on the rare occasions that our Chancellor of the Exchequer reduces a tax, he is said to have “given money away.” In other words, all money is his, and whatever we have in our pockets is what he, by grace and favor, has allowed us."

The Roads to Serfdom,Theodore Dalrymplem City Journal