{"id":24548,"date":"2011-12-15T11:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/the-poor-you-will-always-have-with-you.html"},"modified":"2011-12-16T06:04:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T13:04:35","slug":"the-poor-you-will-always-have-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/the-poor-you-will-always-have-with-you.html","title":{"rendered":"The Poor You Will Always Have With You"},"content":{"rendered":"

And folks wonder why the concept of "cut taxes on the rich to create jobs" is so nonsensical: because the rich won't "create jobs" while consumer demand for the output from those jobs is in the toilet … and consumer demand is depressed because folks are out of work or struggling with low-paying and part-time jobs.<\/p>\n

And that's why public spending in these sorts of circumstances makes sense. Because there are always useful infrastructure projects (to take an example) around, that won't necessarily pay off in a way that someone would invest in them, but which are nonetheless necessary and could provide jobs for people … who could then buy more widgets, and so which would promote private investment.<\/p>\n

But that's not going to happen any time soon with statistics like the below. #ddtb<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCensus shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSqueezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans \u2014 nearly 1 in 2 \u2014 have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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And folks wonder why the concept of "cut taxes on the rich to create jobs" is so nonsensical: because the rich won't "create jobs" while consumer demand for the output from those jobs is in the toilet … and consumer demand is depressed because folks are out of work or struggling with low-paying and part-time … Continue reading “The Poor You Will Always Have With You”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,77],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economy","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":24548,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In "DDtB-SEB Podcasts"","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":24548,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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