The admnistration expects that more tax money will be collected due to the increased hiring in health care? Increased hiring created by tax money. That was collected by taking money from one person and giving it to another.

Wait, of course, it's the multiplier! Which in the theoretical universe of the Hicks/Samuelson econ 101 textbook only works in one direction.

Give a bureaucrat a dollar and it grows into more than a dollar's worth of services: the publicus expanderamous spell strikes again.

• posted by Linda Gorman
• December 6, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
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