There’s no convincing the dopey left of what is a basic truth: there’s no such thing as government spending. Governments only have resources insofar as they arrogate to themselves production that always and everywhere takes place in the private sector. Government spending is politicized allocation of wealth created privately.
When Nancy Pelosi promises major programs that always fail to live up to their objectives, she’s not pulling resources from the sky. She’s instead using wealth extracted from the private sector by others in order to spend it in the way she wants. Government spending is a frequently wasteful, nearly always sub-optimal allocation of resources.
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