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> That money would otherwise be flowing into business investments & consumption, charity, and civil society, the natural institutions of free people. What do y
by cottonseed 11y ago
> That money would otherwise be flowing into business investments & consumption, charity, and civil society, the natural institutions of free people.
What do you think the gov't does with it, burn it? 5 of the 6 startups I worked for wouldn't have happened without government assistance (DARPA-funded university project spinouts, SBA, government contracting.) Consumption is spending money. They government spends it, or give it to people who do (that seems to cover consumption and charity.) What is more civil than banding together to take some of the variance out of life?
- marcoperaza 11y ago> What is more civil than banding together to take some of the variance out of life? Letting people decide how to spend their own money. Private charity is "banding together to take some of the variance out of life". Like all of the government's authority, taxation flows from the end of a gun. You can be imprisoned and fined if you don't pay what you owe. > What do you think the gov't does with it, burn it? 5 of the 6 startups I worked for wouldn't have happened without government assistance Government investment in certain sectors can be good, such as for fundamental sciences. But in general, private investment does better with the same amount of money. Even when government programs are well designed at their birth, the world around them changes faster than politics and bureaucracy can keep up with.