Yes, is this a problem? There are businesses that assist you with this already. Called investment banks. Or the government if you are looking for small business loans via SBA (and the government hires banks to do the underwriting, which the banks can still do).
> If my money is deposited with the government, then I have to go and find someone to lend to myself, and actually have the money removed from my bank account?
Also, you know the savings rate you earn at a bank is not because of the loans a bank makes, but because the government pays the bank. Why do you want your government to pay a middleman before paying you?
There was a time and purpose for this system, before instant communications and electronic databases. Now, those purposes have been automated away.
> If my money is deposited with the government, then I have to go and find someone to lend to myself, and actually have the money removed from my bank account?
Also, you know the savings rate you earn at a bank is not because of the loans a bank makes, but because the government pays the bank. Why do you want your government to pay a middleman before paying you?
There was a time and purpose for this system, before instant communications and electronic databases. Now, those purposes have been automated away.