[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Mr Libertarian [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] theHurtfulTurkey [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Mr Libertarian Also, stimulation worsens the economy.[/quote] Yeah, increasing the money supply, there's no way that could help promote GDP growth...[/quote] Look theory is that every dollar the government spends is income for someone who, when he spends that income, provides income for another person. This is the Keynesian multiplier effect. The Government gets this money from taxing, borrowing, and inflating money. When the Government does these things, the regions of Jobs are destroyed and then new areas have artificial jobs. There has been no proof over economic growth and stimulus. Why? Because art.boom = art.bust + the new amount of debt (or inflation) that the country receives.[/quote] Which has nothing to do with the fact that government spending on the private sector, barring a previous increase in taxes, adds to the money supply. Of course there's a smart way to do it, but you're implying that the government is increasing taxes just to dish it back out for stimulus money, when in reality (notably in the Bush stimulus), the point of the bill is to put some of the money back into the economy. I'm not supporting Keynesian nonsense, but stimulus measures are certainly not anti-capitalist. [Edited on 11.14.2012 12:04 PM PST]