Yet ensnared in the Keynesian delusion that society can create wealth by mortgaging its future, the stimulus-besotted denizens of the beltway blew it entirely on the one true domestic function of the state---even under the regime of crony capitalism that now prevails. That imperative is to maintain and adequately fund a sturdy safety net to support citizens who cannot work due to age or health, and to supplement the incomes of families whose marketplace earnings fall below a minimum standard of living.
And he still hates tax cuts and views tax cuts not as less government confiscation from people, but rather as government "showering money" on people. This idea comes from the philosophical template that all money belongs to the government and that it is up to government to assure that it is distributed fairly. At the same time Stockman (correctly) exposes the falacy that is modern "Keynesian economics" he turns around and disses Milton Friedman. (?) Then he talks about how "free market capitalism" merely needs to be smoothed out by the state.
In other words, Stockman is simply all over the place.
Couldn't finish his book.
The left preaches redistribution to help the poor but that is the smokescreen, the inevitable results of their policies are to take away all hope from the poor while making the tiny group at the top ever more wealthy until final collapse. A leftist government is like a cancer that grows bigger and stronger while the body sustaining it withers away. The cancer dies after the host has died. I am amazed at the people who still don’t seem to recognize “liberalism” as the malignancy that it is. They keep proposing changes to the system like someone who has lung cancer saying that what they need is a little smaller tumor in their lung and a new tumor in their colon. They cannot seem to realize that what they need is NO tumor because they never admit that it really is a tumor. They go around calling anyone who does not want a tumor of any kind names like “nutcase”, “extremist” etc.