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Where do you think the government gets its money? The tooth fairy?It's actually you who doesn't know anything about economics. Businesses aren't the only source of personal wealth, wages are. How do you think businesses make money? Magic? They have paying customers who pay with their wages. Ever heard of the "PAYING CONSUMER"? If the government employs people and pays them a wage, then those people have the purchasing power to buy the products they consume from the private sector. The private sector profits, whether the customer works for a private company or the government, it doesn't matter. The public sector does indeed create wealth, through employment, offering its currency, and building and providing infrastructure. It's silly of you to claim that an economy can function at a national scale without a government.
China tried that under Mao. 45 million people starved to death.We could just have the public sector, without a private one,