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Old 07-25-2016, 10:45 PM   #8137
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That's my point. If the US goes full socialist, people ultimately consume less, business moves elsewhere, the market shrinks and the U.S. becomes less important in the world.
Even accepting your premises (which are far from settled), and ignoring any increase in government consumption, if the US consumed at the same per capita household rate as France/Sweden/Germany, it would still be by far the largest market in the West.
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