It's a big government with lots of people, we can do both at once.
Adjusted for inflation, we spend 50% more on education than we when I was a kid in the 1990s: https://www.statista.com/statistics/203118/expenditures-per-...
1. Milk as much taxpayer money as possible, while providing as little as possible through profit-driven social services etc. that require increasingly larger budgets to not collapse entirely.
2. Tax us? Look at all the money the government isn't getting any value out of!
3. Rinse & repeat.