"If one-half of the commodities in the market rise in exchange value, the very terms imply a fall of the other half; and reciprocally, the fall implies a rise." – John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
There was a time - particular among thinkers on the supply-side and supply-side adjacent right - when it was accepted wisdom that production buys production. From the previous truth, it was a known quantity that precisely because governments produce nothing, they by extension cannot introduce any new demand. All governments can do is place the power to demand in other sets of hands through the extraction of precious resources (taxation, borrowing, but nearly always both) from the actual economy.
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