Four Reasons Why Big Government Is Bad Government

This Economics 101 video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity explains that excessive government spending undermines prosperity by diverting resources from the productive sector of the economy. Moreover, the two main ways of financing government -- taxes and borrowing -- cause additional economic damage. www.freedomandprosperity.org

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[lancelot1954]

@jmkpns

Bush certainly wasn't good but Obama is winning the largest government war by a mile.

[clintcastle]

@NanoEmpyrean If the power of the government is more limited so then will be the power of the corruption. People forgot that along the way and now we have a behemoth of corruption that at some point(may have already passed) becomes impossible to reign in.

[PissedFechtmeister]

@NanoEmpyrean Smaller government means that when they are corrupted (as all governments are) they can do less damage.

[PissedFechtmeister]

@kromed01 That's not what the video said. Next time pay attention to what she says, not her pretty eyes.

[schlecksi69]

"government is too large today" is of course not a scientifically evidenced fact, but pure big business propaganda.

The most successful countries in Europe are Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, all countries with a generous universal welfare state and super-high taxes (compared to American standards). Those countries now in troubles have had super-low tax levels (compared to European standards), whereas they did not spend more than the successful countries, cf. OECD

[MSJewelryAU]

This kind of video should be shown to every economics/history/mathematics class.

[kromed01]

Yet another false pro-capitalism video. Basically give all the money to the corporations and the country will be great again. This video is bollocks.

[worldwar2history]

@TheBandwagonman what a stupid statement, what anyonee means when they say "small government" is that it needs to have just the nessicary functions. IF ITS NOT NESSICARY then we clearly dont need to fund it. sorry but your comment is just stupid. big gov is bad, less gov is good, so long as they still take care of the nessicary things.

[TheBandwagonman]

I think that the size of government should be appropriate... Not to big, and DEFINITELY not too small. Both are equally bad.

[halloranedward]

It isn't just that tax's are too high,(they are) it isn't just that spending is too high, (it is), and it isn't even that a business plan that includes exponentially increasing deficit spending will obviously end in bankruptcy (it will) . It is because we are financing our own destruction. The spending is on price control. if we don't end socialism now , America will fall.

[halloranedward]

@pplystation C4L !

[pplystation]

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