Central planning and government spending are the same thing. The democratic process of scrutiny within government spending can and have been overlooked in many different situations. Market corrections are driven by utopian ideals, the line between what is considered to be market failures that have to be corrected and central planning keep becoming more and more blurred. This is what the socialists don't want you to know.

>>511126358 (OP)
>Central planning and government spending are the same thing.
Not inherently. You CAN spend billions with no plan at all.

>>511126484
You can also fuck up the market through regulations without spending anything.

>>511126631
I was explicitly told that if you absolutely had to meddle with the free market, that regulations are the best way of doing it since supposedly it doesn't cause nearly as much distortion. I'm not completely sure if this is true, however.