The only way to truly increase the prosperity of the people is to get the state to do away with taxes or at least lower them. If the people and businesses didn't have the economic pressure of automatically losing 30-40% of their income to support wars we don't need people would have more funds to use on whatever they pleased. We would have a bigger middle class, more people would be able to start businesses to help improve the quality of living for those around them, and people wouldn't have to be so tight with their pennies so they could afford to support the local businesses instead of wasting their money on big corporations like Walmart because it's cheaper. Ultimately by supporting these corporations we're only making it harder on ourselves.