There are two growth industries in America today. Everything else is shrinking. Health care is growing because boomers are retiring and getting old. This will curtail in a decade. Then it will begin to shrink quickly. Then there is government and the NGOs (Non Government Organizations) and GSEs (Government Sponsored Entities). These two groups and other government vendors represent a massive amount of our economy. They are why the economy is growing. Its all government spending. And its far more than taxes coming in. In fact the spending has little to do with the taxes. They are uncoupled. One has nothing to do with the other. Taxing is a way to control and limit growth. And spending is a way to support work in a certain area. We no longer have a market based economy. We are totally a government based (centrally controlled) economy with a little free market handling the grey areas.
Even things like Tesla and SpaceX are centrally controlled. They would not exist if it were not for government funding. The free market would not have let them grow. They are both the products of government plans. And that is why they don’t quite have a client base which is large enough to support their products into the future.
“Taxing is a way to control and limit growth“
Preach!