Government spending amounts to the central planning of precious resources by politicians. Worse, it amounts to the warping of the people and businesses on which it's spent precisely because no one spends the money of others as carefully as they spend their own.
That’s why West Virginia remains poor despite decades of federal government largesse. Contra economists who believe against all logic that government spending powers economic growth, the exact opposite is true. Central planning of goods, services and labor is just as described. It renders any economy worse, by definition. In other words, a little central planning isn’t economically enhancing in the way a lot of central planning isn’t.
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