Most people seem unaware that the government is not the economy.
If you regulate the economy, taxation, then this stifles and constrains the economy. The economy is positive. The government is negative. The economy is full of people who make money and trade with each other. Business people don’t want the third party in the mix, the government regulations. Instead, people simply want money to change hands directly. This free trade of goods is prevented by the government. Because governments tax people, regulate currency, impose tariffs between national borders, impose laws, licenses, and permits. Overall the government dampens and has a negative effect on the economy.
If you removed the government, libertarianism, then you will create a better system of free trade. But the government has grown in power, bloated, and corrupt. So the government raises taxes, leverages federal contracts, and creates unfair trading practices. Over time, the government competes directly against the economy or “free market”, as is the present case today.
The government pays its government employees through other people’s tax money. If there were no taxes, then there would be no government jobs. So the government does not actually provide “real jobs” to people. The government only offers proxy jobs and with a false sense of security. All government jobs are possible only after the imposition of taxation is applied to real workers. Real workers are the ones who operate private businesses, not public businesses. So private business is a real job. Public business is a false job. Because the public businesses all depend on the private businesses for money.
If you get rid of all the real jobs, real workers, and private businesses, then the government will have nobody to tax. Taxing government, federal workers, is just a double taxation. Their jobs are already created through taxation. So taxing a government worker is a form of internal inflation of debt. A public business is taxed twice. It is made possible after taxing private business. And then it is taxed again by the government, the same institution that created it.
I am for a libertarian society, free trade, free business, and against the government in general.
The government is bad business, and bad for business. The government shutdown was a good thing for business, and a good sign for the economy. The government should shut down more often, the whole system should close down, that way real workers, with real jobs, can get back to work.
I haven’t gotten to minimum wage. But the minimum wage is the best example of how the government imposes itself against private businesses. The government dictates that businesses must pay a minimum wage to employees. But why is this third party the authority? If a worker accepts less pay, pay for the real job, then why should a third party get involved? It’s because the government represents a moral authority as well. The government presents itself as “fair” and just. But I don’t agree with that. The government is not fair or just. And it should mind its own, bad business.
Ultimately, it seems like the government exists to protect economically and financially inept people, from capitalists. Not everybody is a capitalist, and so, the government exists to protect people from having a real job, with real responsibilities. Government jobs are supposed to be “secure”, but are they? No, they’re for irresponsible people. The responsible people are the ones with real jobs, real workers, and this is private business. This is capitalism. If you do a bad job, then you get fired. But if you’re a government employee, a bad job is expected of you. And you can’t get fired, because you can sue.