If nothing else, our leftist friends deserve credit for chutzpah.
All around the world, we see concrete evidence that big government leads to stagnation and decay, yet statists repeatedly argue that further expansions in taxes and spending will be good for growth.
During Obama’s recent state-of-the-union address, he pushed for class warfare policies to finance bigger government,
claiming such policies would be an “investment” in the future.
But it’s not just Obama. Hillary Clinton, on several occasions (see here, here, here, and here), has explicitly argued that higher tax rates and bigger government are good for growth.
The statists at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (financed with our tax dollars) actually argue that higher taxes and more spending will somehow enable more prosperity, both in the developing world and in the industrialized world.
And some left-wing “charities” are getting…
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