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StatistFallacies/TheStateDidThat

Fallacy:

"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." ~ Barack Obama

All technological and social advances are attributed to state intervention and state action.

Response:

Only individuals act. Only individuals choose. Business success is the result of providing a product or service other people believe is valuable to them. In that sense, other people are partly responsible for your success in business. Government, on the other hand, is a drain on business by imposing onerous regulations and taxes that increase the cost of doing business and make sit hard to provide products and services at a rate customers are willing to pay. (LT)

See also:

The government is not necessary to protect the consumer. HealthInspection

The government did not invent roads, and is not the only entity capable of building roads. WhoWillBuildTheRoads?

The government did not create the internet. Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?