The Free Economy – a dismal myth
January 29, 2016
The innovators and researchers are not rewarded in this pretense of a free economy. Digital content is given away, so creativity is not rewarded. Modernizing our government agencies especially the IRS is an essential step in a secure nation; preventing government from functioning effectively should not be allowed as a tactic for those who choose to scoff at laws. Making government ineffective and dysfunctional under a catch phrase of market freedom from burdensome regulation is not in our long-term interests as a nation. The manipulators of our tax code and regulations are parasites on human society. National rules need be implemented; the call to send decisions to states is a tactic to exploit government. This is a strategy of divide and conquer, see how ALEC has promoted using state government to the detriment of the common good and our general welfare. We need uniform tax laws across our nation; it is time to stop pretending the Internet will go away if there are uniform tax laws.
Extorting state local governments for tax breaks should be ended by Constitutional Amendment
The false belief in free has pervaded liberal activists as well, but we have come into this age of winter by the accumulation of conservative economic thought and governance. The conservative idol of Free in our economic and government policies is the snow in our winter of discontent. Free has led to a merger of corporate and government malfeasance. One corrupts the other allowing the concept of free to hide the real cost of government, the real cost of business activity, and to undermine the real potential of earned value in the overall economy. Craving the illusion of free has made our system of policy making free of facts, free of reason, and free of simple honesty. It has caused the conservative movement to profess fiscal policies that are not conservative but are radical deconstructionist policies. The lust for power has driven fundamental fact based budgeting into exile or maybe buried it under a snowdrift. Flint Michigan is unfolding and I am in no position to know, but I suspect someone trying to profit from the formation of a new water provider will be uncovered. It is obvious the austerity measures of robbing local control saved no money and will cost all society far more than simple honesty in addressing the problems in Flint. In our state of Illinois disastrous budgeting is the fault of everyone trying to game the blame for maximum political advantage. Ideological rigidity of enforced austerity does hold sway in the GOP; this approach is nothing more than elevating the principle of free to the realm of fantasy. It is simply denailism. GOP budget policy is the manifestation of a belief in the magical, calling it reform is Orwellian. The magical free approach has proven disastrous in Kansas, Louisiana, Wisconsin, and other places, but our nation is still in the grips of winter. We are lost in the hysteria of cabin fever. We must awaken to the truth that a conservative movement worshiping at the idol of free is destroying our economy and our democracy. If the majority of people demand factual truth in finances, stop believing in the illusion of free, spring will come. I should remind you when the snow melts it will reveal many ugly things that have been hidden in the drifts. Honesty is painful, but truth is the only way value is earned and our nation can enjoy a new prosperity.
Snow hides many ugly things until it melts
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