Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsstat!ian From: ian@utcsstat.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Job transfer, not job creation Message-ID: <2032@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 20:35:47 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.2032 Posted: Thu Aug 9 20:35:47 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 20:43:21 EDT References: <5010@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: Univ of Toronto (UTCS) Lines: 30 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 {ihnp4|decvax}!utcsstat!ian