Cracking open my Sunday newspaper yesterday, the front page brought me this story about the benefits of government investment. The city government basically paid people to live in Osakis and guess what happened? The town is thriving. Government investment works and our economy would be in much better shape if we took the model of these small town in Minnesota and employed it on a larger scale.
Oh, wait. We can't. Hitler and Stalin...I forgot!
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So let me get this straight…
One town decided to pay people to move there, and that proves that government action is the solution to all our problems. Then what about this?
All across Minnesota, cities and towns like Osakis, once assumed to be riding a slow train to nowhere, are proving surprisingly robust.
Did all those other towns also pay people to move in? Or did Osakis just happen to make those payouts at the same time private economic activity was on the rise?
Recoveries in agriculture and rural manufacturing are combining with rapidly spreading high-speed wireless access and other factors to yield numbers that few predicted.
So if the government pays an astronomer, that means the government caused that eclipse?
You do realize that gov't paying somebody to do something that gov't would like them to do is kinda almost exactly like gov't giving tax breaks or subsidies to people or businesses to do something that gov't likes.
But tax breaks and subsisies are bad, and paying people is good....in Marxy's world.
That is govt investment? No wonder you have to invoke your own howls about Stalin and Hitler.
Pre-emptive stupidity.
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