Re:Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era
by brc on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:53PM
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'Good' and 'bad' spending are pretty loose concepts. Sure, building weapons is worse than building tractors in terms of human impact, but when you get down to incessant government intervention in everyday spending, it's not clear that governments spend money better than individuals of any wealth level. Only a minority of citizens waste their money; while a majority of governments waste theirs.
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I don't care how you define good and bad; that's not the topic. You asked how he categorized wealthy as worse spenders than government, the answer is the size of the group. More people equals better spending decisions because it's less centralized. So are you anti-government, or anti-central planning? Because you can have defacto central planning without a government; that's what extreme wealth is, defacto central planning. Sometimes giving the government the money to spend is the more decentralized option.