Tag: Business/economy and government

I’m just going to say, anybody who’s upset about government waste probably hasn’t ever worked for a large corporation.  I worked for a corporation in the midwest when a new division VP decided he’d move the division headquarters to the east coast “to be closer to our major markets.”  It was widely believed that his… Continue reading Run goverment “like a business”??

This is a Reagan-era idea that conservatives still cling to, even if they don’t use the term anymore.  The idea is that if corporations and the very wealthy have more money, they’ll invest more of it and “create jobs.”  It’s flat wrong.  Let’s take as a hypothetical an owner of several multiple McDonald’s restaurants. We’ll… Continue reading “Supply side” economics