Austerity is a great tool to starve the beast [1]. I think the three biggest issues are some spending, taxes and regulation that's spiralling out of control. H

Austerity is a great tool to starve the beast [1]. I think the three biggest issues are some spending, taxes and regulation that's spiralling out of control. However, RARELY do authoritative spending is cut, leading to broken fallacy issues [2]. Secondly, taxes kept being cut so money has to be found somewhere. What better way to take advantage of those without much of a political voice? Youth, disabled, unemployment, etc. Those services are being cut. While some taxes are randomly raised on others, leading to schizophrenic implementations (A tax on corn because it causes fat, but wait, it has a subsidy? I heard). Thirdly, the parties have socially authoritative and fiscally libertarian attitudes. This means cracking down on general freedom in life (conservative/traditional) while giving more freedom to those with money. It's almost as if the parties in power are forming a feudal-style police state. Literally. What I found that's very sad is that most of the politicians in Western countries benefited from cheap or FREE university education and are now demanding the youth to accept those cuts. Fucking hypocrites. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window