I'm a beginner is about to argue a welfare statist/liberal/socialist/obama lover

[John_James]

@kelvin_silva

in regards to the broken window fallacy, I understand it since if the government wants to make jobs it will have to tax its people. and the taxes decrease the people’es wealth (and doesn’t the government have to tax the workers that are working at the government jobs?).

However what about in war? After ww2 the economy prospered. Was this merely because of the nationalism/patriotism which was driving people to build factories and join the war?

How would the broken window be fallacious when one talks about ww2?

More reading, my friend.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal

World War II “prosperity” threads and links