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Big
Government
leads to
Serfdom and
Poverty
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Government
is not the solution to our problems;
Government IS
the problem.
( Ronald
Reagan
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 Welkom,
WWFA
is een Belgische pluralistische en politiek ongebonden
denktank. We onderzoeken maatschappelijke modellen en structuren op
hun
efficiëntie in de realisatie van de maatschappelijke
doelstellingen.
We neigen noch naar links noch naar rechts. Los van ideologie
onderzoeken we het succes van verschillende beleidstypes in hun
realisatie van werkgelegenheid, welvaart, solidariteit en individuele
vrijheid.
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 Welcome, WWFA
is a
Brussels based pluralistic and politically independent
think-tank. We investigate social models and structures on their
efficiency in achieving their social objectives. WWFA is
neither a leftist nor a rightist group. With no ideological
attachments, we examine the success of different policies in their
achievement of employment, prosperity, solidarity and individual
freedom.
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 Bienvenu, WWFA
est un groupe
d'étude Belge pluraliste et politiquement non lié.
Nous
examinons les modèles et les structures sociaux sur leur
efficacité dans la réalisation des objectifs sociaux.
Nous inclinons ni à la gauche ni à la droite. Hors de
toute idéologie nous mesurons le succès de politiques
différentes dans leurs accomplissements sur le plan de l'emploi,
la prospérité, la solidarité et de la
liberté
individuelle. |
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Publieke organisaties missen de kennis,
traditie en vooral de
motivatie tot efficiency, en maken overheidsbemoeienissen in spontante sociale en
economische processen tot een dure
en overbodige complicatie.
Veel
overheidsbemoeienissen zijn
inderdaad overbodig en ongewenst. Ze
verstoren zelfs de spontane orde en het economisch evenwicht. De maatschappelijke
meerwaarde van het overheidsingrijpen is meestal geringer dan de kostprijs. Andere publieke
diensten kunnen veel efficienter worden geleverd door de
privé sector.
Als
gevolg van de werkingskost,
de bureaucratie, corruptie en opportuniteitskosten veroorzaakt overheidsinterventie systematisch verkwisting en
welvaartsverlies Per saldo
verlagen opgedrongen publieke diensten de
netto welvaart omdat waardevolle
koopkracht wordt verspild die de burgers aan veel
nuttiger
goederen en diensten hadden kunnen besteden. Overheidsbemoeienis
in
het economisch proces verstoort zodoende de
optimale aanwending van productiemiddelen en verlagen het
globaal welvaartsniveau.
Levenskwaliteit en Geluk
Zulke parasitaire overheidsdiensten schaden
bovendien ook de levenskwaliteit omdat ze in toenemende mate doordringen
in de privacy van het individu, en op autoritaire wijze zijn vrije keuze
beperken. Zodoende
schaden ze de geestelijke
integriteit, de zelfbeschikking,
zelfredzaamheid en spontane solidariteit van de burgers. Overmatige
overheidsbemoeienis degradeert aldus de burgers in hun diepste
bestaan als vrije en
verantwoordelijke wezens tot een middel ter realisatie van ongewenste
collectieve doelstellingen of zelfs particuliere of
specifieke groepsbelangen.(4)
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The
public sector does indeed lack the tradition, knowledge and incentives
for
efficiency,
making public interference in spontanuous economic and social processes
to a costy complication.
Most public interference is indeed superfluous or unwanted. Public
tutelage consistently disturbs the spontanuous order and the economic
equilibrium.
Public services systematically provide less wealth or happyness than
they costs
to produce. Other public services could be provided at lower cost by the private
sector. As a result of the operating
cost, bureaucracy, rent seeking, corruption and the opportunity
costs public interference
causes massive waste and loss of wealth. Obligate public services
do indeed harm prosperity as they
waste precious buying power people could have spent on useful goods and
services. Public interference in the economic process so distorts
the optimal allocation of resources and consequently reduces the level
of wealth.
Quality of Life and Happyness
Such parisitical
pseudo-services also harm the quality of life as the public
interference is
progressively intruding
in people's privacy. In
an increasingly authoritarian
manner "public service" limits our free
choice and reduces
our self-determination, mental integrity and
most importantly our self-supporting capacity as well as our sponanuous
solidarity.
In this way Big Government degrades the very nature of our existence
as
free
and responsable
beings to a mere instrument for the
realisation of special groups' interests or unwanted
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bestaat geen
enkele reden waarom de overheidbemoeienis en de
publieke uitgaven nog zou moeten
groeien naarmate welvaart
toeneemt. Integendeel. Met de toename van de
materiele welvaart neemt ook de zelfredzaamheid toe en wint de
immateriële
behoefte aan zelfbeschikking aan belang. Op
basis van onderzoek
pleit onze denktank dan
ook voor bevriezing van de
overheidsuitgaven en afbouw van alle vergunningstelsels en bureaucratie
als prioritaire
doelstelling om de overmatige belastingsdruk geleidelijk
maar duurzaam
terug te dringen en de uitbuiting van de productieve burger door het
overmatig overheidsapparaat en zijn parasitaire
bureaucratie te stoppen. (5) |
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There
is no
reason why public interference and spending should grow
along with the progress of
prosperity. On the contrary. Growing
material wealth improves people's
self-supporting capacity and increases their spiritual need for
self-determination. On basis of research our
think-tank calls for a freeze
of public budgets as a primary
objective in realising a gradual and durable reduction of the tax
burden. In an effort to stop the
exploitation
of
productive
citizens by excessive government and its parasitical bureaucratic
agencies, we also call for a cutback of permits
and licences and the administrative burden. |
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Verlaging
van de belastingdruk en de bureaucratische overlast kunnen de
incentives
herstellen en het economisch dynamisme bevorderen. Dat is hoognodig om
een antwoord te
bieden op
de uitdagingen van de vergrijzing en
op de opportuniteiten
van de globalisering. Op termijn
pleit onze denktank voor een verregaande
scheiding
van economie en
staat. Voor de economische
verantwoording en de stand
van
zaken in het WWFA onderzoek verwijzen
naar de 
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A
radical cutback
of both the tax burden and government intervention are indispensable to
restore
incentives and render the resources and dynamism to the private sector.
it is needed to meet the challenges of Europe's demographic
ageing
as well as to take full advantage of the opportunities of the
globalisation. In
the long run we
plead
for a far-reaching separation of economy and state. For the economic
justification and the present state of the WWFA research we refer to our
page
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Main
Sources
Martin
De Vlieghere and Paul
Vreymans (2006)
European
Commission - Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
Christian Bjørnskov, Axel
Dreher , Justina Fischer (2005)
By A.J. de Bruin (2007)
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Current ResearchProjects in Progress:
1. Good
Governance and Taxpayers Value in the Public Sector2. Slimming down
Governmentto its optimal Level.
Currentsensibilisation
Campaign :
Explicit Mention
of both Gross and Net Earnings on Workers' PayCheque
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Very recommended books and articles
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The Road
to Serfdom. This
masterpiece of
Nobel Prize laureate Friedrich Hayek
is an eye-opener,
strongly advocating the free market principles. In this all-time
classic Hayek persuasively warns against the authoritarian utopias of
central planning and the nanny welfare state. Fascism, communism and
socialism share these utopias. For the implementation of their plans
these authoritarian ideologies require government power over the
individual, inevitably leading to a totalitarian state. Every step away
from the free market toward planning reduces people's freedom and is a
step toward tyranny. Planning also cannot assess consumer preferences
with sufficient accuracy to efficiently co-ordinate production.
However in a free market, "Price" is the all-inclusive source of
information, guiding entrepreneurs to produce whatever is wanted and
directing workers wherever they are most needed.
Free markets also
provide the entrepreneurial climate for a thriving economy and for
releasing the creative energy of its citizens. Free individuals in
their native strive to develop their talents and to improve their fate
produce spontaneous progress.
All public interference in the economic process disturbs the market
equilibrium, distorts the optimal allocation of resources and
consequently reduces the level of wealth. Where planning replaces free
markets people do not only loose their freedom and individuality.
Resulting slow
growth also increases welfare demands causing dependence similar to
slavery. In the end people's self-reliance and self-respect is ruined,
and citizens are degraded to a means to serve the ends of the
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High
public
spending does not only cause slow economic growth. Big Government also
significantly lowers the quality of life. This is the main
conclusion of an empirical research into the effects of government
involvement in the economy and into the question whether public involvement
is conducive or
detrimental to life satisfaction in a cross-section of 74 countries.
Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher and Justina Fischer provide a
test of a longstanding dispute between standard neoclassical economic
theory, which predicts that government plays an unambiguously positive
role for individuals’ quality of life, and public choice theory, that
was developed to understand why governments often choose excessive
involvement and regulation, thereby harming voters’ quality of life.
Results of the empirical research show that life satisfaction decreases
with higher government spending.
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The
Path To Sustainable Growth
Lessons
From 20 Years Growth Differentials In Europe
Martin
De Vlieghere and Paul Vreymans
Abstract:While the rest of the world is booming, Europe lags behind. Europe's
performance is weak in
spite of high productivity and knowledge, high level of
development and good labour ethics. Growth is also remarkably
dissimular among regions. France, Germany and Italy are stagnating, and
so do Denmark,
Sweden and Finland. All gained less than 44%
prosperity over the last 20 years. The Irish
economy grew 4 times faster, gaining 169%
wealth over the same period. In half a generation Ireland so
metamorphosed into Europe's second
richest country creating jobs for all." Big government " is the main
cause of Europe's weak performance. The oversized Public-Sector lacks
productivity and undoes
the
entire productivity gains of the Private
Sector, eradicating
all of its outstanding performance and
productiveness. Europe can improve its overall performance by copying
the Irish
success formulas: Scaling down Public Spending, downsizing
bureaucracy, and shifting the tax burden
from
income on
consumption. This book demonstrates why the Lisbon
Agenda and decades of Keynesian inflationist demand stimulation have
failed. It devellops alternative and workable
supply-side strategies as well as effective cures
for humane growth and a financially sustainable social
security.
This book reads as a
step-by-step manual for economic
recovery.
It is a data-reference for students and politicians
interested in growth, wellfare and in social modelling. It is aclassicforeconomists concerned
about Big
Government,poor public sector productivityand for parents worrying
abouttheir declining standard of living and their children's future.
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