| theprof00 said: No kasz it isnt a nonrelated factor it is a factor that happy refuses to acknowledge, and now you as well. I said the government helps business by employing people and he called it a thief. That fact of the matter is that they can both be considered employees who provide for the business, get paid by the business, and spend at the business. It is the unwillingness to see that point that hinders our discussion. Both republicans and democrats say that the jan 1 cuts would severly hurt the economy. Now tell me again that it is my failire in comprehension again, and not the truth of the matter that government is instrumental in job creation. |
You don't seem to understand the difference between a productive job and a non-productive job ...
If you tax me to pay for someone to dig ditches and fill them in I don't spend that money buying goods and services, the job to produce those goods and services is not created, and we are worse off because I don't get the good or service and you don't get the productive job.
If you start smashing windows to stimulate glass manufacturers we end up with the same number of windows but we ended up paying twice as much for them; and that money is not used to buy other goods and services creating other jobs within the economy.
People on welfare, bureaucrats, and politically connected rent seeking parasitic corporations do not produce anything of value we get no benefit from their "job"; they don't pay for anything that wouldn't otherwise be bought, but they "steal" from you what you would have otherwise had the opportunity to buy.
Not all government spending is on non-productive jobs, but most of the growth in spending since the 1950s has been on non-productive jobs.
