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In my opinion it's classic Dunning-Kruger effect. For some reason the people in question took some Econ 101 or read some thing somewhere, and are extremely confident in their extremely limited economics knowledge, being completely ignorant of how complex it actually is in the real world.

As an aside, if there's one thing strategy games (and in particular Paradox' Grand Strategy games and Democracy) have taught me that might actually be real world applicable, is that nothing is simple or easy, and anyone (especially politicians) that they have one easy solution that will fix all problems is either ignorant or a charlatan.