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Bush On Steroids?

Video: Stimulating government, not the economy

Dan Mitchell has another excellent video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity explaining the folly of Barack Obama’s stimulus plan. He notes that the idea of increasing government spending is nothing new.  In fact, the Bush administration expanded government spending at a rate unmatched over the last decade.  If that stimulated the economy, why are we in the mess we’re in now?

If government spending stimulated national economies, as Obama proposes, then “North Korea would be Nirvana,” Mitchell exclaims.  In fact, we don’t have to go to those extremes to see the end result of massive government spending and jacked-up taxation.  All we need to do is study Western Europe, which has stagnated for years on those policies, and Eastern Europe, which has thrived on low tax rates and better fiscal discipline.

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