Jim Hlavac
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Economic Theory
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There are many subjective ideas about "economic growth" -- but it
always comes down to what ever we have today -- we'll have more of
it tomorrow. There is always great hand wringing throughout the
governments of the world about keeping economic growth on track and
helping it along. In fact, for the most part governments are mostly
actively engaged in preventing economic growth. Through taxes,
regulations and outright prohibitions, the vast majority of governments
are working diligently to prevent more money from getting into the
hands of the citizens. The United States government has now joined
the program of prohibiting and restricting economic growth. They, like
past governments do so for the same reason as of old. There is nothing
new under the sun here. So why? Why would governments hobble and
wreck an economy? Because the more money the individual has the less
money the state has. And the rulers of every state want all the money
they can get their hands on so that they can live the lives they would
deny to everyone else. Governments are merely organized criminal
organizations with a rapacious power to destroy people. Even calling
people citizens of the government or the nation, causes governments
and the individuals who run them, to think that the people are theirs to
do with as they wish. Such was the fountain of kingly power since the
dawn of time. Such is the craving for the power mad of today. It is no
different in kind whatsoever. Rich people in an individualistic society
obviate the need for government, and those who want to rule are
always miffed at the idea, so always endeavor to limit and prohibit,
hobble and destroy private economy. What is happening in the United
States today is no different than one happened in the year 1100 when
Medieval Kings sought to tax the wealth out of a nation so that he could
be comfortable in his castle and invade the neighboring kingdom to
seize more wealth that belonged rightly to the people who created it,
and not at all to him who craved it.
And the one certainty in all this is that it is impossible for the
government to help growth by taxing some citizens and giving that
money to others. Moving money around the accounting tables does not
create wealth. If it was remotely true anyone could just relabel the
columns on their accounting sheets, and lo, new wealth. On the national
accounting, taking money from one group by taxes and giving it to those
who are favored by the rulers does not create wealth. It creates
poverty. First because it scuttles the productive energies of those on
the receiving end of the wealth transfers, who logically are operating
under the economic dictum of "getting the most for the least." And the
spread is never further than getting some guy with a gun to go get you
some money while you sit at home and do nothing. The other reason it
creates poverty is that it will eventually cause those who produce to
cease to do so, or to move elsewhere, or to otherwise hide their
wealth, and somehow get around the laws of redistribution.
always comes down to what ever we have today -- we'll have more of
it tomorrow. There is always great hand wringing throughout the
governments of the world about keeping economic growth on track and
helping it along. In fact, for the most part governments are mostly
actively engaged in preventing economic growth. Through taxes,
regulations and outright prohibitions, the vast majority of governments
are working diligently to prevent more money from getting into the
hands of the citizens. The United States government has now joined
the program of prohibiting and restricting economic growth. They, like
past governments do so for the same reason as of old. There is nothing
new under the sun here. So why? Why would governments hobble and
wreck an economy? Because the more money the individual has the less
money the state has. And the rulers of every state want all the money
they can get their hands on so that they can live the lives they would
deny to everyone else. Governments are merely organized criminal
organizations with a rapacious power to destroy people. Even calling
people citizens of the government or the nation, causes governments
and the individuals who run them, to think that the people are theirs to
do with as they wish. Such was the fountain of kingly power since the
dawn of time. Such is the craving for the power mad of today. It is no
different in kind whatsoever. Rich people in an individualistic society
obviate the need for government, and those who want to rule are
always miffed at the idea, so always endeavor to limit and prohibit,
hobble and destroy private economy. What is happening in the United
States today is no different than one happened in the year 1100 when
Medieval Kings sought to tax the wealth out of a nation so that he could
be comfortable in his castle and invade the neighboring kingdom to
seize more wealth that belonged rightly to the people who created it,
and not at all to him who craved it.
And the one certainty in all this is that it is impossible for the
government to help growth by taxing some citizens and giving that
money to others. Moving money around the accounting tables does not
create wealth. If it was remotely true anyone could just relabel the
columns on their accounting sheets, and lo, new wealth. On the national
accounting, taking money from one group by taxes and giving it to those
who are favored by the rulers does not create wealth. It creates
poverty. First because it scuttles the productive energies of those on
the receiving end of the wealth transfers, who logically are operating
under the economic dictum of "getting the most for the least." And the
spread is never further than getting some guy with a gun to go get you
some money while you sit at home and do nothing. The other reason it
creates poverty is that it will eventually cause those who produce to
cease to do so, or to move elsewhere, or to otherwise hide their
wealth, and somehow get around the laws of redistribution.