Excessive taxes and regulations curb production. By eliminating them we increase output and the demand for labour. This in turn raises real wages. To suggest that this would damage consumers is incredibly stupid. It should be clear, even to Argy, that by encouraging growth we increase the amount of resources available to the community.
Growth is a resource generating process.
Far from reducing opportunities, as he claims, policies that promote growth continue to create more opportunities for more and more people. His view that increases in wealth and income disparities occurs at the expense of the masses is a zero-sum notion. It is a view that has absolutely no substance in free-market theory or any support in history. Argy o demonstrate otherwise. As for labour programmes, they are not needed.