auditor0007
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Those who think divvying up an existing pie is the way to economic growth are missing the boat. When you divvy up the pie, the pie soon ceases to exist.
If you want everybody to have pie, the only logical way to do that is for more people to bake pies every day and for the government to encourage incentives to bake those pies. When the government presumes to tell you what kind of pie you have to bake, who gets the pieces, and how much you get to keep for yourself, a whole lot people will a) be able to bake a pie and b) will be inclined to bake one.
And the one lesson our government no longer seems to understand, if you get pie whether or not you bake one, there is a whole lot less incentive to bake.
There is no divvying up of the pie, at least not now. We are and will continue to see growth so long as our population increases. Most of you missed the point of the thread. The question was how do we continue to grow the economy once we stop having population growth. There are ways to do it, but it's not easy. It does become more difficult for business owners to expand most businesses, especially if they are consumer type businesses.