Capitalism holds solutions to all our problems is a given for right wingers. Everything has always been boiled down to "CAPITALISM GOOD --- SOCIALISM BAD", yet the only steps we are taking are things that the right has condemned as anti-American for years. Not a single capitalist idea in the batch . Why not? Surely some of the smart right wingers here have figured out several ways that capitalism can easily get us beyond this problem. Here's your chance. Show us how capitalism can solve this.
Perhaps you have noticed I have been screaming my head off about federal deficits ever since coming to this forum.
In particular, I have been railing against tax expenditures, which are massive government interference which have been totally distorting markets and add up to $1.4 trillion ever year.
Not every ten years. Every year.
If we were truly capitalist, those tax expenditures would not exist, and our economy would easily be able to absorb a multi-trillion dollar hit.
We would have a budget surplus, much less corrupt campaign finance, and lower tax rates for everyone.
So, yeah. Socialism is ******* us hard in the ass right now.