Does the USA need more socialism or less socialism?

[Ringo]

When governments inject themselves into free enterprise the whole nation suffers. Well-meaning leftists do more harm than good and yet remain unaware of the truth.

So, planning your family's finances, calculating how much money will be spent, what it will be spent on, and what goals will be achieved is perfectly normal. Planning the same thing on the scale of a single enterprise is also perfectly normal.
But when this is done on the scale of a country's economy, does it somehow become an unheard-of crime against common sense?

 

[markef]

So, planning your family's finances, calculating how much money will be spent, what it will be spent on, and what goals will be achieved is perfectly normal. Planning the same thing on the scale of a single enterprise is also perfectly normal.
But when this is done on the scale of a country's economy, does it somehow become an unheard-of crime against common sense?

Limited government involvement in private business is OK. Too much regulation, control, and widespread involvement is bad.

 

[Ringo]

Limited government involvement in private business is OK. Too much regulation, control, and widespread involvement is bad.

The issue isn't the extent of government involvement in the economy—that's impossible to determine—but who owns the means of production and the land.
If it's private property, then intervention in the economy is carried out solely in the interests of the capitalist class, the owners of the means of production.
If ownership of the means of production is public, then intervention in the economy is carried out in the interests of the entire people.