Why is goverment spending so bad, doesn't it put money back into the economy?

Answer 1

This is the interesting aspect to "Pork Spending". There's constant complaining about it, yet Senators are supposed to bring money home to their states for projects, research and jobs. Still there's some outrageous spending such as the highway to nowhere.

Answer 2

The gov't shouldn't be placing money in the economy as we live in a free market society....it is the society that drives the economy. The government through the federal reserve controls interest rates to control inflation...that's it. They shouldn't be trying to boost the economy by dumping a bunch of money into it as this is the main cause of inflation. The best way the gov't can boost the economy is to give more of the taxpayers money back to them, and control their spending. With so many things going on right now that is not possible.

Answer 3

Whose, Cheneys, Israels, the already fat cats? Haven't seen it reflected in the minimum wage, which is the same as 10 years ago. Might be in Congress and the House, they just voted themselves another $3,300 a year to add to their $35,000 in raises in the last 10 years. Or it may be to health care they get free for life after serving just one term..or postage and office help for x amount of years.
Count the ways it doesn't trickle down. One reason they did not raise the minimum wage was they said it would hurt businesses. Well, if the government was puting money back into the economy, where is? Business is too poor to pay decent wages, and people are too poor to buy their products.
Typical government trash talk. Show us the money!

Answer 4

That's a big question. It does put money back into the economy, but by your very question you acknowledge the government takes money OUT of the economy in the first place. That's really the bad part, in some minds, as it interferes with the proper flow of market forces by re-distributing wealth.

Answer 5

The international banking gadget is milking the cow dry . The crooks are loose in the fowl abode . the human beings of the US are being ripped off . this may bring about a melancholy more effective then the single in the 1930's . That melancholy grow to be created merely after the creation of the federal reserve and by technique of them as an formerly robbery .

Answer 6

Exactly. Over the long-term, what helps a country grow -- $10 million spent on advertising, or golf-ball technology, or hamburger efficiency, or $10 million spent on a highway or library.

Business must always be a part of the economy, but government spending can be a very useful part of the economy. The wealthy in the US have somehow convinced people of the opposite of that -- but it's a fact in most parts of the world.

Answer 7

Snicker. Pardon me, but it's the taxpayers who put money back into the economy. And it's our taxdollars they are using. The government doesn't have any money. It's our money, and they are supposed to spend it wisely. Hah!.

Answer 8

it isn't bad at all

as long as its spent on something useful

like well thought infrastructure or education or health care

when its spent on killing and injuring other people it is very bad (and only causing further expenses)

Answer 9

BECAUSE GOVERNMENT IS RUN BY MANY DOLTS WHO THINK THAT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE IS A PART OF THEIR MUSIC SURROUND SYSTEM

Answer 10

People should understand taht the U.S. Government is run by idiots. idiots who have had NO experience in doing anything and in addition, they are corrupt.