Elbert County’s largest employer is Government.
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- It can spend only what it first collects from taxpayers.
- It does not add any net positive value to the county.
- It does not make a profit.
- It controls and regulates who may engage in true profit-making enterprises in the county.
- It controls and regulates who may live where and how in the county.
- Elbert County’s largest employer would not exist without the coercive power of the state to prop it up.
- The direct cost of Elbert County’s largest employer is the tax cost to citizens.
- The indirect cost of Elbert County’s largest employer is an “opportunity cost” – the value of profit (wealth) that would have been added to the county if the people and resources consumed by Elbert County would have been engaged in private enterprise.
Elbert County citizens have been brainwashed into believing that this losing enterprise is their best hope for a better future. Not only is it not, it is physically impossible for it to ever be so.