Loading ...That’s not the kind of spending we need. The Gov’t won’t buy antiques, used wooden boats, used cars, rent apartments etc. When I was a kid, many others around me put adds in the Buy lines Press. You could buy and sell anything to other young people with money.
One by one, various small individually owned businesses have gone out of business over the past 45 years. My neighbors owned the gas stations, the drug stores, small kitchen cabinet factories, TV repair shops, the small lumber yards etc etc. We even had a feed supply and dairy or two.
Now a days you have to go to publically owned (communist) stores, CVS, Home Depot, Oil company owned gas stations etc. You can’t argue cash price with seller, (bar code) and you can’t make your spending money stay in your neighborhood, or neighboring area.
When the Gov’t spends money, they spends the money on themselves, and their “friends” increasing gov’t payrolls with tax payer gleaned funds, driving taxes higher on tax PAYERS.
The Gov’ts needs and wants, generally are not the same as tax PAYERS needs and wants, unless the tax PAYER wants to get a cushy gov’t job or gov’t contract. I don’t know anybody in my circle that wanted to spend money for Iraqi Freedom for example.