Can We Get Ahead by Picking Each Other’s Pockets?
Here is an excellent post from the Mises.org crew. As a further enticement, here are the mini-headlines with in the post:
C + I + G = Baloney
Victims of a Failed Economic Theory
Government Spending Is a Parasite on the Private Economy
Or, in a paragraph:
The key fallacy embedded in Keynesian economics and the GNP equation is the idea that government spending adds to an economy’s health. In reality, the opposite is true: government spending subtracts from an economy’s health. The real economy is the private economy — there is no other. Government spending must come out of the private economy.
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