There never was or ever will be a way to rule, regulate and tax a nation in to prosperity. What we see are the results when people in governmental positions do just that, either they are doing it on purpose what most likely is the case, or they are too ignorant to learn from history what should or could be done. It certainly doesn’t take much of a scientific mind to go back in time and see what has worked in the past and then apply to the present.
But as most politicians do have an incredible ego, thinking that they are infallible with whatever they say or do, that would be asking too much. So most of them live quite comfortably if not extremely well and the rest of us just keep struggling along and try to keep up with all the BS and more and more taxes they heap upon us, until one day the wheels come off and the whole works comes to a screeching halt. And rest assured that this will happen as it always has, as history will repeat itself over and over until people take the hint and make and effort to learn.
Perhaps then they may take note, scratch their head and in their ignorance keep wondering how on earth could this ever have happened.