Many Americans are drawing the eminently sensible conclusion that federal top-down economic management doesn’t work, as this Cato@Liberty post by Emily Ekins shows. That trend has the statists very worried. Some are griping about a “crisis of confidence in the government.”
As Rahm Emanuel says, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Let’s take advantage of it to reinforce the trends by showing every teachable American why the government can only make things worse: lower productivity, lower employment, less saving and investment, lower purchasing power — all are the inevitable results of government economic meddling.
