As opposed to far left-wing government bills, which only accomplish one thing.....spend more money than the government has?
The strength of the economy lies in the hands of the working people, not the government. Let those people keep more of their money, and you have a stronger economy.
There is a reason why the Soviets struggled for years to have any decent crop output despite having some of the best crop-growing land in the world.
And there is a reason why the British, despite not being able to grow enough food to feed themselves for over century now, have never had supply issues, when countries like the USSR, struggled for years to feed their own population.
There is a reason why price controls on electricity in California near the turn of the millennium led to power shortages and blackouts state wide. Thanks for far left-wing government imposed price controls, public utility companies were paying more for electricity than they were getting from the consumer. This led to numerous companies going bankrupt, and as a result, several blackouts.
Or even more recently, California having to threaten to resort to billions in budget cuts because the government couldn't control spending.
Thanks, but I'll take a government that stays the hell out of the economy, and a government that doesn't intrude into my private life, and on my job, and regulates how much money I can make, or what I pay for utilities or food.....any day over a government that wastes taxpayer money year after year.
Of course, there are numerous other examples of how government intervention, or increased government spending led to disasters. There is a reason both China and India, the biggest emerging economies in the world have gone to a free market style approach.
The problem is the general person can't see beyond stage 1. If at stage 1 the government imposes price controls on electricity, and forces the utility companies to operate at a loss, the only thing the average person sees is their monthly bill where they pay LESS for electricity. Nevermind stage 2 where the power companies go bankrupt, or stage 3 where there are numerous blackouts, or stage 4 where power companies back up and move elsewhere, leading to less tax revenue, or stage 5 where the loss of tax revenue by the state leads to a budget crisis, or stage 6 where the budget crisis leads to HUGE cuts to the budget, not to mention numerous public employees losing their jobs.
All of this has happened before, and all of this has happened again. And until the voters demand a government that can find the perfect 'spot' between too much invervetion, and not enough intervention, governments will continue to operate outside of its means.
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