I appreciate the point and agree with it, but in fairness to the financial prudence folks if the government were to start executing citizens that would have major costs down the line. I would not expect a government concerned with financial prudence to do such executions if they were at all intelligent. It’s cheaper to give unproductive people welfare than to round them all up and kill them, once you take matters of political economy into consideration on the accounting sheet.
I appreciate the point and agree with it, but in fairness to the financial prudence folks if the government were to start executing citizens that would have major costs down the line. I would not expect a government concerned with financial prudence to do such executions if they were at all intelligent. It’s cheaper to give unproductive people welfare than to round them all up and kill them, once you take matters of political economy into consideration on the accounting sheet.