Simply for an entertaining "thought experiment"....

If you had to restrict all government spending to just one single area, what would it be and why?

I realize most here would say the state is illegitimate and shouldn’t even exist, but let’s say for the sake of this discussion that isn’t an option and you had to choose the “lesser of all evils”. [:P]

The regulation of unicorn ownership.

Medicare, Medicaid.

Space programs so we can homestead other planets. In other words, science.

it has been suggested that the government subsidise and therefore generate an overproduction of hazzlit’s economics in one lesson.

oh, and unicorns.

But…Hazlitt’s EIOL is a polemic piece full of melodramatic and ideologically charged material that passes itself off as textbook material and is without substantial mathematical content so it isn’t really worth reading…<----literally what someone said when I recommended it in another forum…

The government should subsidise my alcohol consumption. Finally a government program that works.

food for children. while I don’t like socialism, children at least shouldn’t have to pay for the stupid economic decisions of their parents.

I would build myself a pyramid to honor me for eternity.

haha, food for children, a slippery slope!

The Universal Church of Our Lord and Saviour J.M. Keynes and Historical Museum of Economic Stupidity, spanning the distance of Montana. Great public works project!

Digging a hole to Chine, after all that’s where all the mony is! [:P]

the economy

Paying bureaucrats to not work.