So little actual addressing of the points in my reply.
If you have a point to make, make it. If you think there is an issue that you raised that I didn't address, state it. Self-congratulatory rhetoric does nothing but impress the simple-minded. On the off chance that you weren't just engaging in exhibitionistic rhetorical onanism, I will break down what you said line by line and address it again, just so we're clear.
Labor is turned into profit. Finished goods exceed the sum of the value of their components.
Every time money is spent between people for goods or services, regardless of its source, it creates additional wealth for whomever is turning a profit in the deal.
Labor is turned into profit through voluntary transactions where each party to the transaction has the opportunity to apply a subjective valuation to the objects of the transaction compared with the subjective values of the opportunity costs experienced by the traders involved in the transaction. A bald assertion by a politician that "The taxpayers received more in value from the productive work of the government employee than the tax money they paid" is merely an assertion by a politician spending someone else's money. No politician is able to objectively evaluate the myriad opportunity costs experienced by all the taxpayers with reference to the work performed by the government employee — that is one of the biggest reasons why government should be kept small and the division of labor left almost entirely to individuals acting freely in the market. It is the reason that socialism fails so spectacularly when it is seriously attempted. The concept explaining this is called The Economic Calculation Problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem) and this problem inheres in all transactions made by command as opposed to conducted voluntarilly. You cannot evaluate a transaction where no choice of alternatives is possible or the choices are artificially foreclosed by fiat.
Re: So many words. So few words to work with.
If you have a point to make, make it. If you think there is an issue that you raised that I didn't address, state it. Self-congratulatory rhetoric does nothing but impress the simple-minded. On the off chance that you weren't just engaging in exhibitionistic rhetorical onanism, I will break down what you said line by line and address it again, just so we're clear.
Labor is turned into profit through voluntary transactions where each party to the transaction has the opportunity to apply a subjective valuation to the objects of the transaction compared with the subjective values of the opportunity costs experienced by the traders involved in the transaction. A bald assertion by a politician that "The taxpayers received more in value from the productive work of the government employee than the tax money they paid" is merely an assertion by a politician spending someone else's money. No politician is able to objectively evaluate the myriad opportunity costs experienced by all the taxpayers with reference to the work performed by the government employee — that is one of the biggest reasons why government should be kept small and the division of labor left almost entirely to individuals acting freely in the market. It is the reason that socialism fails so spectacularly when it is seriously attempted. The concept explaining this is called The Economic Calculation Problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem) and this problem inheres in all transactions made by command as opposed to conducted voluntarilly. You cannot evaluate a transaction where no choice of alternatives is possible or the choices are artificially foreclosed by fiat.