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Why Jobs Don’t Justify Government Spending

Government jobs aren’t a free lunch.
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Why Jobs Don’t Justify Government Spending
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Peter Jacobsen
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My colleague, Maggie Anders, recently made an insightful post on X: “‘But people will lose their jobs’ is not a legitimate argument for continuing to pump taxpayer dollars into the bloated federal government. Sorry.”
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Peter Jacobsen
Peter Jacobsen
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Peter Jacobsen is a writing fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). He teaches economics and holds the positions of assistant professor of economics at Ottawa University and Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research at the Gwartney Institute. He received his graduate education at George Mason University.