right it does seem to be the case i don 't know whether it 's worth and the economy has gone pretty well for a hundred years or so with the government doing what they do with taxes steering investments and steering virtually every dollar you make or spend it gets uh steered one way or the other based on tax breaks you get and you know housing had tax breaks for a while and then they slacked off on that for a while and then just uh generally wanting to be in control of of where everything 's going for the most part give you the best break if you go their direction i don 't know what what would happen if we uh got rid of some of those controls and just went to what some people would say would be simpler of just having uh you spend this much uh therefore you should be taxed this much that would only encourage saving it 's not a you know a tax your income because now you 're talking about having to report it and all that kind of stuff
If everyone decides to save money , it depresses the whole economy .