What no liberal wants to deal with is that somewhere along the line real wealth has to be created. Even wealth you redistribute.

Any real wealth you arbitrarily gift to someone is wealth that has to be removed from somewhere else (I note that liberals never remove this wealth from themselves. It's always somebody else.)

The theory of government "stimulus" assumes, basically, that you can improve an economy by taking money from the car maker and then giving it to somebody so he can buy a car. It shouldn't take a genius to see the problem with this.

You can't fill a bucket by drilling a hole in the bottom of it and running a hose back up to the top.

Got it yet?

I have no idea how hard you had to hit yourself over the head with a brick to transform that into some weird thing about "tainted" money.

"Stimulus" redistribution also assumes--a rather far-fetched assumption--that the people who claim the right to redistribute other people's wealth will make better economic decisions with it than the people who created it and own it. Usually, the people who own surplus wealth want to use it to make more money. The people who want to loot it want to use it to buy political power. Which one will create real economic growth?

You been watching Europe lately? How's that idea working out for them?

Sure, you can fake wealth by printing money, or borrowing it with no intent to repay. I could make my lifestyle look pretty damn good by maxing out every line of credit I have. Of course, then I would go bankrupt and those holding my paper would have nothing. This is what the U.S. has been doing for a while now. Going a trillion dollars deeper in the hole every year, selling promises to fools.

How's that working out for our country?

As I said earlier: "Economics is not hard. What makes it complicated is when economists try to twist it to make socialism sound like a great idea."

Listen to yourself. You don't think the money being saved by industries is their money. You think it's your money, and that you should be able to rob them of it so you can spend it on things you think are more important than what they plan to spend it on. The exact moral code of any crook robbing someone at an ATM, wrapped in centuries of excuses and verbal gas to make it sound like something else.