Origin
Mark J. Green coined the exact phrase in a 1974 article discussing the utility company, Con Ed.
The sentiment was earlier expressed in the adage "Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor", which was in use by the 1960s, and the notion of privatizing profits and socializing losses dates at least to 1834 and Andrew Jackson's closing of the Second Bank of the United States.
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