Do Federal/State/Local Governments Create Jobs?

[Wry Catcher]

Government cannot create jobs Virtually all government jobs are paid for by taxes taken from corporations and private citizens. That represents money that cannot be spent on improving products, inventing new ones, etc. Obviously some government functions are necessary, like patent office and courts. But the vast majority of the bureaucracy represents dead loss--money thrown down a pit.

Are you really that ******* dumb?

Do you really need to ask? Of course he is!

 

[bripat9643]

Government funded research has created the Internet, GPS, the microcircuit, Google, medical breakthroughs

Millions upon millions of jobs

The government did not create Google or the microcircuit, and it only played a small part in creating the internet. Most medical breakthroughs have been privately funded.

Dude, the socialism of a public sector, already took us to the moon and back, while capitalism still searches for a profit motive.

How did going to the moon benefit the taxpayers?

 

[bripat9643]

In theory government has no money, unless they tax. They create currency, but the value of the currency is the production of the American worker and what people attach to that. This is why government merely redistributes money, and it does so at a loss in value due to the labor it requires to redistribute.

Word Salad ^^^. A statement which is ridiculous and nothing more than an echo of right wing propaganda.

Yes, taxes fund government, on all levels. What the taxes provide is the measure of their value. Is there waste in government, yep. Are there private sector businesses and industries whose net benefit is out done by the cost-deficit, yep (see Tobacco, Alcohol and the gun industry)

The people who consume those products don't agree. One of the intrinsic personality flaws of the liberal is his belief that he has the right to determine for others what is in their best interests.

What taxes provide is of no net value to me.

 

[zeke]

How did going to the moon benefit the taxpayers?

You ever use WD40? Great stuff isn't it. There you go.

 

[bripat9643]

How did going to the moon benefit the taxpayers?

You ever use WD40? Great stuff isn't it. There you go.

$100 billion to get WD40?

 

[depotoo]

George Washington said it well in his farewell speech-

...As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate. To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate...

too bad I government has forgotten this important philosophy.

Government cannot create jobs Virtually all government jobs are paid for by taxes taken from corporations and private citizens. That represents money that cannot be spent on improving products, inventing new ones, etc. Obviously some government functions are necessary, like patent office and courts. But the vast majority of the bureaucracy represents dead loss--money thrown down a pit.

 

[saveliberty]

The government creating jobs myth is directed at creating private jobs. It is akin to saying the government got you that college education. Personal choices creating opportunity pure and simple.

 

[rightwinger]

How did going to the moon benefit the taxpayers?

You ever use WD40? Great stuff isn't it. There you go.

$100 billion to get WD40?

$100 billion to say our ******* flag is flying on the moon

 

[Lakhota]

The poll shows that NaziCon retards are losing. Maybe there is still hope for America...

 

[bripat9643]

How did going to the moon benefit the taxpayers?

You ever use WD40? Great stuff isn't it. There you go.

$100 billion to get WD40?

$100 billion to say our ******* flag is flying on the moon

Again, how did the benefit the taxpayers?

 

[rightwinger]

How did going to the moon benefit the taxpayers?

You ever use WD40? Great stuff isn't it. There you go.

$100 billion to get WD40?

$100 billion to say our ******* flag is flying on the moon

Again, how did the benefit the taxpayers?

They seemed to enjoy it very much.....not many asked for their money back

 

[bripat9643]

How did going to the moon benefit the taxpayers?

You ever use WD40? Great stuff isn't it. There you go.

$100 billion to get WD40?

$100 billion to say our ******* flag is flying on the moon

Again, how did the benefit the taxpayers?

They seemed to enjoy it very much.....not many asked for their money back

Where do you apply to get your money back?

 

[rightwinger]

You ever use WD40? Great stuff isn't it. There you go.

$100 billion to get WD40?

$100 billion to say our ******* flag is flying on the moon

Again, how did the benefit the taxpayers?

They seemed to enjoy it very much.....not many asked for their money back

Where do you apply to get your money back?

We the People seemed pretty happy with the expenditure

 

[Wry Catcher]

In theory government has no money, unless they tax. They create currency, but the value of the currency is the production of the American worker and what people attach to that. This is why government merely redistributes money, and it does so at a loss in value due to the labor it requires to redistribute.

Word Salad ^^^. A statement which is ridiculous and nothing more than an echo of right wing propaganda.

Yes, taxes fund government, on all levels. What the taxes provide is the measure of their value. Is there waste in government, yep. Are there private sector businesses and industries whose net benefit is out done by the cost-deficit, yep (see Tobacco, Alcohol and the gun industry)

The people who consume those products don't agree. One of the intrinsic personality flaws of the liberal is his belief that he has the right to determine for others what is in their best interests.

What taxes provide is of no net value to me.

The people who consume tobacco and alcohol in excess miss work more often, suffer chronic disease, and thus raise the health care costs of all.

Do you ever think (can you think?) before you post? Maybe Rabbi isn't the dumbest in the land, you sure are a close second, if not the leader.

 

[bripat9643]

$100 billion to get WD40?

$100 billion to say our ******* flag is flying on the moon

Again, how did the benefit the taxpayers?

They seemed to enjoy it very much.....not many asked for their money back

Where do you apply to get your money back?

We the People seemed pretty happy with the expendture

Obviously you are determined to not get the point.

 

[Wry Catcher]

What did Lewis and Clark contribute? How about Columbus? Taxes paid for their journey's.

 

[bripat9643]

In theory government has no money, unless they tax. They create currency, but the value of the currency is the production of the American worker and what people attach to that. This is why government merely redistributes money, and it does so at a loss in value due to the labor it requires to redistribute.

Word Salad ^^^. A statement which is ridiculous and nothing more than an echo of right wing propaganda.

Yes, taxes fund government, on all levels. What the taxes provide is the measure of their value. Is there waste in government, yep. Are there private sector businesses and industries whose net benefit is out done by the cost-deficit, yep (see Tobacco, Alcohol and the gun industry)

The people who consume those products don't agree. One of the intrinsic personality flaws of the liberal is his belief that he has the right to determine for others what is in their best interests.

What taxes provide is of no net value to me.

The people who consume tobacco and alcohol in excess miss work more often, suffer chronic disease, and thus raise the health care costs of all.

Yeah, so? It's for them to decide if the product is worth the money, not you. That's called freedom, a concept that is alien to liberals.

Do you ever think (can you think?) before you post? Maybe Rabbi isn't the dumbest in the land, you sure are a close second, if not the leader.

I see little evidence of thinking in your knee-jerk compulsion to control everyone who doesn't behave the way you want them to.

 

[bripat9643]

What did Lewis and Clark contribute? How about Columbus? Taxes paid for their journey's.

Hmmm, tons and tons of gold, silver and precious gems were exported from the New World to Spain, so I think they got more than their money's worth. As for Lewis and Clark, I never made any claims about them being some kind of good deal for the taxpayers.

 

[Edgetho]

What did Lewis and Clark contribute? How about Columbus? Taxes paid for their journey's.

Taxes paid for Columbus' journey?

Do you have to attend classes to be that stupid or does it come naturally?

 

[RKMBrown]

How did going to the moon benefit the taxpayers?

You ever use WD40? Great stuff isn't it. There you go.

$100 billion to get WD40?

$100 billion to say our ******* flag is flying on the moon

Again, how did the benefit the taxpayers?

The taxpayer's benefit from having a leadership position in manufacturing and technology fields. For example, since we decided to hand over all of our manufacturing and technical expertise for short term profit we've seen the USA's share of products built and sold, and technical advances created and owned here in the USA shrink. The space missions focused taxpayer investments to achieve some technical advancements somewhat faster than without them, to be first. It's advertising that America's the place to go to, for the latest ideas.

Course they also took funding from other more practical technical advances that might have been wiser use of our funds.

The problem with getting to the moon, wasn't so much getting there. It was not having a long term approved plan for making money from it. Switching to the shuttle design is what killed NASA. We should have used that money to put a base on, and mine the moon.

My guess is china will do what we should have done.