As the post said, it is government interference with the economy that consistently hurts the economy. There is a need for an “enabling” government that provides security, courts of law, basic physical infrastructure, and just enough regulation to provide a level playing field and minimze corruption and restraints of trade. Our government has gone totally beyond such an enabling level of operation to one of destructive strangulation. And there has been no reduction of government corruption–indeed as government grows, corruption therein gets bigger.

It is instructive to look back at historical progress–America did extremely well for 300 years, from 1620 to 1920, becoming the most powerful and most affluent nation on earth–with little government, no income tax, no foreign entanglements, no economists, no think tanks, no intellectuals, no mass media, and very few college graduates. Progress since then, except in the physical sciences, has been moot, dubious at best. And the physical scientists mostly worked as independent or corporate researchers pursuing technological opportunities with little regulation.

Many people confuse the progress in medicine and technology over the past 100 years as evidence that Big Government has helped– but that is false. Scientific advances have been making life easier and longer in Western nations for over 500 years and has advanced with or without government backing. It is the soft-sciences that have grown and done little good during the past 100 years as our country has been buried under the bad advice of “expert” counselors, economists, and social planners of every stripe.