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The thing about “cost” is, it’s about spending money. When you spend money it goes somewhere — to someone, which most people would call creating jobs. So we can
by orev 7y ago
The thing about “cost” is, it’s about spending money. When you spend money it goes somewhere — to someone, which most people would call creating jobs. So we can spend $1T and make a ton of jobs, make money move around the economy which drives the engine, and in the end we’ve made the world a better place. Why exactly are Republicans against this plan? Aren’t they supposed to be the job creators?
- hackeraccount 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window But it's as easy that the people opposed see the opportunity cost - if you spend $1T on this then you're spending -$1T on something else. Imagine if the Republicans proposed spending $1T on the military - why oppose it? It'll create jobs, right?
- ptah 7y agobut it will produce instruments of death so not really the same
- lamarpye 7y agoWhy isn't this flagged as partisan flamebait? I guess attacking the right groups is okay.
- ptah 7y agothey claim to be, but generally aren't. i also think that it should be framed as a fiscal stimulus