Can Governments make economies grow?

[burnt]

Potheads need pot to feel good. Crackheads need crack to feel good. Alcoholics need booze to feel good.
Governments feel good when running deficits.

Difference is that it is our money that pays not only for their habit but for their entire lifestyle.

[Hamloc]

Mustard, the majority of this subsidy is made up of uncollected taxes such as carbon taxes and is really a theoretical number not an actual monetary subsidy to the production of oil. It is a number that enviro's love to throw around to justify the real money governments will have to come up with to make other forms of energy cost competitive. I am not against low carbon energy production, I simply believe the technology isn't as affordable, again this has been proven in Ontario as an example.

[Hamloc]

Whoops to funny posted that on the wrong thread lol.

[LEP]

If governments created growth that would be like the perpetual motion machine.

But they havent figured that out yet.