Does This Mean Government Can’t Buy Us Prosperity?
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Today’s Las Vegas Sun’s article on the sorry shape of the Las Vegas economic recovery should be leading us to ask whether we ought to be reconsidering the game plan on what makes things work. We supposed to blindly accept the fact that government (mostly in the form of the federal government) can buy us out of economic downturns. According to the television commercials and the rest of the hype, the federal stimulus spending has done so much to help us that we ought to re-elect those who voted in Washington, D.C. to spend the country into even greater debt.
The trouble is that the economy hasn’t seemed to get the message about how wonderful things are because of all of the wonderful things that federal government has done. Those in charge of the propaganda continue to work on helping us to understand that the prolonged downturn and jobless recovery have nothing to do with the possible problem of the strategy being out of whack…growing government is still the best thing there can be.
Same things go for the state government. Spending funds that aren’t available is a problem caused by greedy and unwilling business enterprises who won’t ante up extra tax dollars that they should be paying. If we only had a tax system that drained more wallets and bank accounts – everything would be just as they should be. Perhaps a more diversified make-up of business enterprises would be flocking to come to Nevada, if they too could pay the funds that they earn to provide for government’s needs?
As government continues to expand or look for more ways to expand at the private sector’s expense – and the same results continue to be realized – will there be a point when the question can be considered? Is our best hope to be found in government’s effort to take our private resources to buy us prosperity, or would it be better to bring about a reduced government with limited intrusion and have instead the private sector grow our economy?
Ideally, given the choices that will be available in November, voters will make their intent known by electing those who offer the alternative to expanding government.
Today’s Las Vegas Sun’s article on the sorry shape of the Las Vegas economic recovery should be leading us to ask whether we ought to be reconsidering the game plan on what makes things work. We supposed to blindly accept the fact that government (mostly in the form of the federal government) can buy us out of economic downturns. According to the television commercials and the rest of the hype, the federal stimulus spending has done so much to help us that we ought to re-elect those who voted in Washington, D.C. to spend the country into even greater debt.
The trouble is that the economy hasn’t seemed to get the message about how wonderful things are because of all of the wonderful things that federal government has done. Those in charge of the propaganda continue to work on helping us to understand that the prolonged downturn and jobless recovery have nothing to do with the possible problem of the strategy being out of whack…growing government is still the best thing there can be.
Same things go for the state government. Spending funds that aren’t available is a problem caused by greedy and unwilling business enterprises who won’t ante up extra tax dollars that they should be paying. If we only had a tax system that drained more wallets and bank accounts – everything would be just as they should be. Perhaps a more diversified make-up of business enterprises would be flocking to come to Nevada, if they too could pay the funds that they earn to provide for government’s needs?
As government continues to expand or look for more ways to expand at the private sector’s expense – and the same results continue to be realized – will there be a point when the question can be considered? Is our best hope to be found in government’s effort to take our private resources to buy us prosperity, or would it be better to bring about a reduced government with limited intrusion and have instead the private sector grow our economy?
Ideally, given the choices that will be available in November, voters will make their intent known by electing those who offer the alternative to expanding government.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 6/16/2010 4:57 AM 
Categories: Federal Stimulus
Tags: Nevada Budget State Spending Taxes 2010 Election Government
Categories: Federal Stimulus
Tags: Nevada Budget State Spending Taxes 2010 Election Government
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