re: #94 Dark_Falcon

If I posted too quickly and in so doing gotten facts wrong, you’d have jumped all over me. I’d rather try to get things right and avoid that.

But you should be able to name something off the top of your head. A social spending program that eats wealth. I can name a bunch of programs that eat wealth, like subsidies for fossil fuels. I can name others that eat wealth but are, at least to a certain extent, worth it— like paying for the Armed Forces, or for the police. But those aren’t social programs.

The fact that you can’t think of anything really, really, really ought to make you stop and think about your economic theories, and make you re-evaluate them.