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richardhutnik said:

Also, you can just manipulate tax rates and spending, and expect it to manage alone.  In a nation with uneducated people, and individuals with severe health issues and short life expectencies, don't expect that changing tax rates will fix anything.  In a society like Inner City America, deck out with bling shops, and teen pregnancy and STDs running rampant, along with crime, don't expect that you can just cut tax rates and having things go well.  No amount of money is going to fit these things.  And people handling freedom badly isn't addressed by giving more freedom to them.  A society can drive itself off a cliff, and saying freedom is the answer, or less government, won't fix it.

I agree, but subsidizing bad behavior (which is what the government currently does) won't fix those problems, either.