Why can’t any government in the world aim to tax ultra rich more whilst making easier for small to medium large businesses to thrive. And policies on property supply rather than property buyers like all sorts of first time buyers programs.
Why are only same old policies keep being peddled when the world is still going to shit?
That doesn’t involve reducing the government size and budget entirely or subscribing to any extreme left or right?
These are separate questions, so I’ll answer them in order.
As for small and medium businesses, these disappear over time and either grow or fail to be capable of influencing the system. In all countries, regardless of economic model, as long as markets persist there will be a gradual increase in proportion of production held by large firms compared to smaller firms, as competition forces growth and centralization. This is actually one of Marx’s most important observations, and forms the basis of Marxism’s view of Socialism compared to earlier Utopian Socialist types like Robert Owen and Saint-Simon.
The Nordic Countries that seem to have the best of all worlds in this respect hide that they fund these nets through international usury, large IMF loans and the like. They function as landlords in country form, essentially, so their working class is just as exploited internally, yet bribed using much larger exploitation globally. The US, of course, is the largest Empire, but that doesn’t mean the Nordic model would “work” for the US.