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From: ian@utcsstat.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin)
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Subject: Job transfer, not job creation
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Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 20:35:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 20:35:47 1984
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	Why not unveil another plan similar to one already implemented
	in Ontario?  Namely, for every NEW position created for a young
	person (why restrict???) the government will foot 33% of the cost
	for up to 3 years.  This creates new jobs (by definition) and it
	allows companies a fairly cheap form of apprenticeship.  Someone

Sorry to disagree, Stephen, when you're trying to be constructive.
But you've touched on one of my favorite(?) sore points.

Government programs do not `create' jobs, they merely transfer them,
because the government has no power to create wealth, and it is wealth
which makes jobs possible. Now the government can CERTAINLY create
paper money, but that is not at all the same thing as wealth. The 
government's only way of getting at real wealth is by confiscating
it. When this is done by private individuals or groups, it's called
robbery. When the government does it, it's called taxation.

When I take goods from one person and give it to another, I haven't
created any wealth. And when the government takes a few dollars from
each person in the country and gives it to some politically-connected
pseudo-business operation, they haven't created any wealth either.
This is practised on a large scale, and if the individuals had all spent
(or banked!) all the same money, the same jobs would have been
made available. Probably more jobs, in fact, given the fact that
private enterprise usually manages to get things done with a less
graft and corruption.
-- 
Ian Darwin, Toronto
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