http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/08/12/austeridiocy-budget-cuts-take-money-out-of-the-economy/ Democracy. Unwashed. Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:36:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/08/12/austeridiocy-budget-cuts-take-money-out-of-the-economy/#comment-804 Nathan Duke Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:38:48 +0000 http://dirtyhippies.org/?p=1590#comment-804 Mr. Johnson, based upon your bio, it is impossible to believe that you are anything but an intelligent, capable human being. It is also clear that you have spent much of your life & career engaged in commerce in the private sector of a free-market [sic] economy. If I am correct about these incidentals, I find it almost inconceivable that you authored the foregoing article. Simply put, you must be kidding! As a computer professional, you must employ logic as a tool of your trade. How is it then that you write, "taking money out of their economies by cutting government". Sir, taxes remove money from an economy. Government taxes. If you reduce government cash-flow (taxes and spending), the money never LEAVES the economy. The state (in the abstract sense) does not create wealth. Private citizens do that with the businesses they build. If you want an economy to flourish, the state must stop seizing funds otherwise used to keep commerce going! Anyhow, I encourage you and your readers to visit www.mises.org for the best damn Economics info I have found anywhere. Okay, take care my fellow citizen. Thanks for listening, I feel better! Mr. Johnson, based upon your bio, it is impossible to believe that you are anything but an intelligent, capable human being. It is also clear that you have spent much of your life & career engaged in commerce in the private sector of a free-market [sic] economy. If I am correct about these incidentals, I find it almost inconceivable that you authored the foregoing article. Simply put, you must be kidding! As a computer professional, you must employ logic as a tool of your trade. How is it then that you write, “taking money out of their economies by cutting government”. Sir, taxes remove money from an economy. Government taxes. If you reduce government cash-flow (taxes and spending), the money never LEAVES the economy. The state (in the abstract sense) does not create wealth. Private citizens do that with the businesses they build. If you want an economy to flourish, the state must stop seizing funds otherwise used to keep commerce going! Anyhow, I encourage you and your readers to visit http://www.mises.org for the best damn Economics info I have found anywhere. Okay, take care my fellow citizen. Thanks for listening, I feel better!

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