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Exactly. The issue in some sense isn't government, it's the corruption of government by corporations that have been allowed to become to big and to powerful, to
by neffy 7y ago
Exactly. The issue in some sense isn't government, it's the corruption of government by corporations that have been allowed to become to big and to powerful, to the extent that the US Government itself has been deliberately defunded. (Sure, I know Government spending grows every year, but so does the money supply and corporate profits. Control for monetary expansion, and the US Government's portion of the economy has been steadily shrinking.)
- pdonis 7y ago> The issue in some sense isn't government, it's the corruption of government Ok, so how do we keep the government from being corrupted? Nobody has yet solved that problem, and people have been trying for centuries. > Control for monetary expansion, and the US Government's portion of the economy has been steadily shrinking. The money supply is not the same as the economy. Government spending as a percentage of GDP, which is the closest estimate we have to "the size of the economy", has been growing, not shrinking.
- m0xte 7y agoWell the first thing you do is ban professional politicians and lobbying.
- amanaplanacanal 7y agoThe trick is doing that while still having some semblance of free speech, and allowing constituents to talk to their representatives about what problems they are seeing.
- pdonis 7y agoAs I commented upthread, your solution is to just change the entire system of government. Sure, that should be simple. Not.
- m0xte 7y agoBig problems require drastic changes.
- AnthonyMouse 7y ago> Control for monetary expansion, and the US Government's portion of the economy has been steadily shrinking. What? No it hasn't. It has kept pace with GDP since the end of WWII (prior to WWII it was much smaller), and the rate of GDP growth is higher than the rate of inflation. The size of government in the US has been growing continuously in real terms since before Eisenhower.