http://mnfmi.org/2009/07/17/mr-mindeman-we-dont-need-no-stinking-reform/ Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:50:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mnfmi.org/2009/07/17/mr-mindeman-we-dont-need-no-stinking-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-836 J. Ewing Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:11:33 +0000 http://mnfmi.org/?p=3059#comment-836 The most glaring error among Mr. Mindeman's usual Iliad of illogic is the notion that every dollar that government spends (and it spends every dollar it gets, and then more) will be spent EXACTLY as would the taxpayer or taxpayers from whom it was taken, and with absolutely zero government overhead. This is not only an obvious impossibility, but so far from reality as to be laughable were it not such a serious distortion of the economy and so disastrous for individual freedoms. The problem isn't that the dollar gets spent, it is who chooses when and where to spend it. Substituting government's careless, third-party decision-making for that of the individuals most directly affected by that spending can never be an effective economic process. The most glaring error among Mr. Mindeman’s usual Iliad of illogic is the notion that every dollar that government spends (and it spends every dollar it gets, and then more) will be spent EXACTLY as would the taxpayer or taxpayers from whom it was taken, and with absolutely zero government overhead. This is not only an obvious impossibility, but so far from reality as to be laughable were it not such a serious distortion of the economy and so disastrous for individual freedoms. The problem isn’t that the dollar gets spent, it is who chooses when and where to spend it. Substituting government’s careless, third-party decision-making for that of the individuals most directly affected by that spending can never be an effective economic process.

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