Little-Acorn
Gold Member
Government creates the Middle Class. It's not natural to Capitalism.The economy sucks. That happens when you don't spread the cash around.
By "you", little housepainter means government, not the people.
That makes him completely wrong, of course.
The economy sucks when the people don't spread the cash around... by buying, selling, and working.
Government has little to do with such activities... except to the degree it can prevent them, by taxation and restriction (the only powers government has).
Looks like little housepainter is continuing his 0-for-everything record of being wrong.
In fact, capitalism created the middle class, by providing the only means by which formerly-poor people could work their way up, AND a concrete incentive to do so.
Capitalism is merely commerce with no interference from government, except the obvious needs of criminal prosecution and contract enforcement. Finally landlords, kneecappers and unrestrained revenooers could no longer take everything that people managed to accumulate, and those people finally started rising into a middle class they could not have aspired to in previous generations.
Little housepainter is, of course, pushing government policies that reverse many generations of that trend, in the name of "spreading the wealth around" or other disguises for govt theft.