What is supply side economics?
Supply side economics, or classical economics, is the theory that the government shouldn't be involved and that there should be a free market that controls itself. This would be most closely associated with a complete capitalist economy where people look for self gains and the idea that if is successful and makes money then they deserve to keep it and not give it to the poor people who didn't work for it so they don't deserve it.
In a classical economy the rich profitable CEO's make all the money and don't feel the need to share any of it to the people they feel don't deserve it. In order for their business the thrive and grow they have to hire workers but they don't have to pay them very much since there isn't a minimum wage but the workers can stop working for the employer and their business will fail and crumble since they have no one to keep it going.
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Rand Paul who is running for president has an idea for a new budget and it involves as little involvement as possible to the economy. It isn't exactly a classical economic approach but it is probably the closest to that kind of economy that the U.S. can get. His main goal is to have a surplus in the national government so that would require him to raise taxes and possibly lower the amount on some aspects of government spending.