Does Government Spending Bring Prosperity?

08/27/2009 Percy L. Greaves, Jr.

If the government reduces both taxes and spending, it will leave more money in private hands. This money then can, and will, employ more people at higher real wages to make more of what people want most writes Percy L. Greaves, Jr. (1906–1984).

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