Hey, there, displaced factory worker! Looking for work? Bernie Sanders has a job for you.
So what sort of government work is there that would provide $15 an hour plus benefits to millions of unemployed Americans? The Levy Economics Institute study provides several examples of how these guaranteed jobs might play out at the local level.
You might think to yourself, "These seem like the kinds of jobs that certain people with certain types of interests have been begging for the government to fund for years." Indeed, much of the examples in the Levy study seem like descriptions of programs that certain types of local government-connected people with very particular ideas would like to see the government doing.
Perhaps you're wondering, "Is there even any widespread demand for these kinds of jobs that aren't already being filled?" That may sound like some sort of reference to marketplace capitalism! But that's not the point! The point is jobs.
For that matter, can people be fired from these "Guaranteed" jobs? I mean, given how hard it is to fire bad teachers or dangerous cops, it's worth wondering whether people who get these jobs will continue to get paid if they fail to show up for their job trimming the hedges of their community skate park or surveying people about their food insecurities.
The study treats these jobs as though they can be created and eliminated as the economy demands, but trends in government worker employment scream "More! More! More!" There will be tremendous pressure and inertia to keep these jobs going once they're filled.
If governments are unable to absorb the financial costs of paying its current employees, how on earth is it going to pay for such a dramatic increase in new government employees? It would have to dramatically increase taxes on the private sector, which would cause them to shed jobs, which would cause those laid off employees to demand one of these "Guaranteed" jobs.
http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/24/bernie-sanders-has-a-jobs-plan-its-calle
So what sort of government work is there that would provide $15 an hour plus benefits to millions of unemployed Americans? The Levy Economics Institute study provides several examples of how these guaranteed jobs might play out at the local level.
You might think to yourself, "These seem like the kinds of jobs that certain people with certain types of interests have been begging for the government to fund for years." Indeed, much of the examples in the Levy study seem like descriptions of programs that certain types of local government-connected people with very particular ideas would like to see the government doing.
Perhaps you're wondering, "Is there even any widespread demand for these kinds of jobs that aren't already being filled?" That may sound like some sort of reference to marketplace capitalism! But that's not the point! The point is jobs.
For that matter, can people be fired from these "Guaranteed" jobs? I mean, given how hard it is to fire bad teachers or dangerous cops, it's worth wondering whether people who get these jobs will continue to get paid if they fail to show up for their job trimming the hedges of their community skate park or surveying people about their food insecurities.
The study treats these jobs as though they can be created and eliminated as the economy demands, but trends in government worker employment scream "More! More! More!" There will be tremendous pressure and inertia to keep these jobs going once they're filled.
If governments are unable to absorb the financial costs of paying its current employees, how on earth is it going to pay for such a dramatic increase in new government employees? It would have to dramatically increase taxes on the private sector, which would cause them to shed jobs, which would cause those laid off employees to demand one of these "Guaranteed" jobs.
http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/24/bernie-sanders-has-a-jobs-plan-its-calle
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