Most Americans probably do not realize that the biggest employer in America is the gargantuan bloated federal government. Although the Founding Fathers envisioned “a small federal government of limited, enumerated powers,” the federal government currently employs over 9 million persons or about 6% of the total US workforce. By comparison Walmart, the largest private employer has approximately 2.2 million employees worldwide. Apple has employed only 75,000 persons worldwide. So, the biggest employer in the US is government by far. If you add all the employees of state and local governments, to the federal number, the total number of government employees in the US rises to about 23 million or more than 15% of the entire working population. This is alarming, and it is not changing. Biden is currently proposing to double the number of IRS agents.
Briefly, and in general terms, a large bloated federal government is a terrible idea for several reasons. First, government workers do not pay for themselves; all those cushy salaries and benefits have to be paid for by the private sector. Second, government employees know little about investing money or developing the economy. Substantially all economic growth happens in the private sector. Government leaders like Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, Harris, Sanders, and AOC, have no experience running successful businesses. They have no training or experience in how to grow an economy. That is why blue states and blue cities tender to whither and die as many of the private tax payers, sick of having their hard-earned money stolen from them by people who have never run a successful business, flee high tax cities and states. People want to earn and save their own money, not suffer progressive confiscation as liberal leaders slowly destroy economic growth, which has happened in 100% of all communist countries throughout time.
So the simple fact of escalating government growth, is enough to predict the economic decline of the US.
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