Big Government is Unsustainable

Rational self interest causes individuals to make careful decisions about how best to use their resources to obtain maximum benefit from them.

They carefully examine their options, but if they’re mistaken in their decision, they can reallocate their resources toward more desirable results.

Because our economy is nothing more than millions of individual decision making processes about how best to allocate resources, the more freedom a people have to make such decisions, the more efficiently those resources will be allocated.

The more prosperous the nation will be.

But through programs of taxation and redistribution, Big Government attempts to centralize economic planning. This diverts resources from individuals making decisions through economic means, people who have a vested interest in being right or wrong, to bureaucrats making decisions through political means and who aren’t particularly affected either way.

They promise prosperity for everyone with out any real effort on the part of anyone, so long as we march off to work to put in our 30 hours, then endorse our paycheck over to the government at the end of the week and keep our mouths shut.

Of course, bureaucratic management can never compete with the free market in solving problems. So central economic planning doesn't work. As a result government is inherently wasteful, and the larger it grows and spends, the more it wastes. Examples of Big Government waste and incompetence are so numerous, that I won’t even begin to waste your time with them.

We’ve come to a place in our history where a bloated public sector and massive deficit spending are simply unsustainable. Our national debt has exceeded $13 trillion dollars, federal spending is 25% of GDP. Include all level of government, and you’ll find that more than half of all our economic output is directed not by stakeholders, but the political process.

If there’s one thing the failed Socialists experiments of the 20th century and the recent instability of European societies have taught us, it's that no economy can survive this for long.