Productivity dropped for home businesses this year as entrepreneurs had to fend off census door-knockers.
Government jobs pay more and have better benefits than private sector jobs.
What incentive does that create?
Rather than acquire retirement wealth, those that do ‘public service’ work receive huge retirements that greatly exceed anything they might have acquired working for private companies.
Why doesn’t the government just buy a helicopter and drop money from the sky?
Exactly! There is census hiring every ten years, in good times and bad. So it ought to be possible to "tease out" the effect of census hiring on the economy by examining employment statistics during a dozen or so previous census periods. Why didn't he do that? |
“Keynesians acknowledge that, someday, the private sector will pay taxes to finance the salaries and benefits of government employees, but this cost is said to be offset by the additional demand for goods and services produced in the private sector, which have those government employees as their customers.”
OK. If we logically follow where this assertion takes us, an economy would be just hunky-dory if everyone worked for the government, and no one worked for the private sector. In fact, we’d all probably be better off because without the private sector there would be no useless private sector profits to be drained from the system, right?
I was a crew leader.
By the time we came by for the fourth or fifth time (even if they had sent in their form and/or filled one out for us) people were VERY stimulated!
I suspected my bosses were trying to cause an incident.
/frivolity
no
For an economics professor writing for The New York Times, this author was pretty lazy. He says he's trying to figure out whether all the census hiring stimulated the economy. But then he fails to use the one method that would have worked, and which he knew was there: