Nothing Threatens Jobs Like Politicians in an Election Year
Derek Hunter
The most destructive force in the American economy is not regulators, though they are certainly part of it. It’s not even the bureaucrats who order them around, though their hands are filthy as well. It’s the politicians who run the show, but more specifically it is the politician running for office or reelection who are the termites of jobs and economic growth.
The political promises made to voters create uncertainty about the future, the promises kept inevitably create the drain on growth, and politicians scrambling for votes who promise anything and everything are the foundational rot that makes it so difficult to have growth sustained over any length of time.
If they would just leave us alone, if they could get out of our way, we’d all be much better off. There’d also be a fairly large contingent of Americans who’d realize they don’t need nearly as much government as they think they do and they have. That’s what terrifies the political class more than anything – people realizing they create most of the “problems” they campaign to fix.
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