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Economy
Do We Need A “Federal Job Guarantee”?
2017-02-12
[LI] A group of academics has published an article in the socialist publication Jacobin in which they advocate for a "federal job guarantee." This proposal entails a guaranteed minimal income of $23,000 per year and "rising to a mean of $32,500" to people who do not have jobs. This money would come, of course, from tax payers who do have jobs, most of whom can ill-afford the tax burden this "spread the wealth" scheme entails.

This idea has been batted around by socialists (and communists) for decades and is again rearing its ugly head.

Jacobin magazine--named for the blood-thirsty, failed French revolutionaries who slaughtered over 40,000 people in less than a year--is a publication devoted to socialist thought and celebrated by progressive outlets such as Vox.

Is it any wonder that this socialist publication would publish an article that articulates the idea of resurrecting some incarnation of FDR’s failed "Works Progress Administration" (WPA), a program that likely prolonged the Great Depression?

According to the authors of "Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee," a "federal job guarantee" would give "everyone a job"and is "the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace."
If you give them money for not working, they're not workers, are they?
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  ..they seem to have followed that advise in no-go areas of Chicago. Mainly pharmaceuticals.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-02-12 18:54  

#7  I was told if you can't find a job make one.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2017-02-12 14:33  

#6  Sounds like a few million border wall builders would be a great start to this program.
Posted by: Airandee   2017-02-12 13:34  

#5  I'm on board with this, as long as every professor in the U.S. is paid on the same scale.

I'm so old, I remember our country as being the only one in the world that placed the highest emphasis on the work ethic.
Posted by: Raj   2017-02-12 13:28  

#4  If this is such a totally genius idea, why hasn't somebody done it all ready. Point me to a working instance somewhere in the world.

(would it be mean to also ask for a working instance of socialism?)
Posted by: SteveS   2017-02-12 09:58  

#3  No.

Even if you don't have skills, there is always a job. Those that say they can't find one are either not trying, don't want the ones that they find, or a goddamn lair.

Stupid fucking communists.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-02-12 09:56  

#2  No. We need less entitlements that incentivize freeloading and sloth
Posted by: Frank G   2017-02-12 09:49  

#1  Apparently, the only 'job guarantee' is state and federal civil service. No one is stopping you from applying.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-02-12 09:34  

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