Taxes on the affluent should be increased.

Ok, the you have said that government needs to stimulate a economy in a ressecion. This is not true. A economic depression is a very healthy process. This is were companies withdraw miscalculated capital and use it for better purposes. That is why there is a depression. This is why most depressions are very short and not very painful. When a government stimulates a economy, the economy keeps making the bad investments. If their is a bad project, the business will drop that project. When stimulation occurs, a bad economy suddenly seems good again. Companies keep making bad or risky investments even though the economy is bad. This prolongs the depression because capital isn't doing anything useful. The perfect example is the housing bubble, the market wasn't good, but government made it look great so everybody rushed on in to a losing market. As for demand and says law, I say this. Demand does not drive a economy. It only helps set prices. In a free market, if demand is really low, it's because people want something else. So a business can produce something in higher demand or just lower prices. Any good will be in demand if the price is low enough. So no matter how much a business produces, it can sell the product at the right price. If no one has money to buy TVs, then people will charge less to sell their tvs and people will accept the price. This is the deal with markets. Any good can be marketed at the proper price. The only way this system does not work is if people have no want for any product whatsoever. What about all that thrift, and HOARDING. Well, money is saves for future use. I look at the market and I say, "This market really just sucks." I save or even hoard my cash. Producers start to lower prices and a surplus occurs. I take my cash hoard and spend it for these goods. This goes for producers to. They are waiting for lower prices on goods to make products. When goverment restrains producers, it is much harder for surpluses to occer and prices tend to stay high. But what if the price is to low to make a profit? The workers have to be paid. Consider this, there is a car surplus of unparalleled proportions. People sell cars at below normal prices. You can argue that it takes more money to produce it then to sell it at the market level. The problem is that a goods value is decided on how it can be used as a comodity. I need metal to make cheap cars. Metal might have been valuable at one point but because cars are a cheap comodity, the metal becomes. Metal sellers would charge less becuase no one would pay for metal that would put the car above market price. While labour cost theory says that selling is only about profit, it is more about consumers demand for that product. When demand side stimulation occurs, the producer keeps the price the same, but the consumer buys it with new found money. Thus market prices remain the same and cannot fall. So demand stimulation is never ending. The prices will stay high thus needing for stimulation to buy high prices. So no productions is really gained. These policies rack up pointless debts and lead to huge deficiets. How can you say we need to deficiet spend. Eventually the debt msut be paid back. This is unescapable. We can not debt spend are way to prosperity and hope that the debt will vanish. I think we will likely default sometime in the future. It is possible that we can began to reduce the debt, but when you look at it. That will take incredibly long. It would take consecutive Congresses spending cutters to deal with the issue. If we are to perpetually barrow, we at least have to cut it quite a bit to get it to a safe level. Considering how every president doubles or triples his predecessors spending, it seems we are headed to default. We could print more money but that risks inflation. You keep pressuring me so I will inform you that the tax breaks oil gets are available to almost every other bussiness. They give the government far more then they take in. Please don't say i'm supporting corporate wellfare because i oppose ethonol, farm and sugar subsidies, all of wich are corporate wellfare. As is your beloved green energy. As for free markets. The 1800s panics where just that. Short panics. They only lasted a few years. As for growth in a free market. The 2000 where not a free market area, i have addressed this already. The first year of the 1920 deppresion was worse then the first year of the great deppresion. How ever Harding didn't intervene and the economy surged back. The great depression lasted for around 15 years. In fact hoover started the depresson.