They're not "funded by the tax payer." That is exactly what doesn't happen. Money is a not a limited physical resource, and "tax payers" do not generate it. Mo

They're not "funded by the tax payer." That is exactly what doesn't happen. Money is a not a limited physical resource, and "tax payers" do not generate it. Money is a set of political choices defined by governments. It's also a draconian form of social credit which enforces individual and corporate competition over political power and access to resources. The only limitations are literal physical resources, including a stable climate - exactly the things that this Money System fails to conserve or manage intelligently. The rest is just rhetoric and persuasion with some numbers thrown in. The point of economic rhetoric isn't to grow "the economy" for everyone, it's to manage faith in the future for both winners and losers, and most of all to maintain and expand differentials between the different castes and levels in the economy. If the government wanted to narrow those instead of expanding them it could do it tomorrow. It wouldn't even need to raise taxes - although it might sometimes be useful to do so to make a rhetorical point about relative power.