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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
To this, GGG offers me a hypothetical where union wages are 3x non-union wages, and TM asserts theres "a much highly stimulative effect," as if just saying that way answers the question instead of restates it. Hey, I just spent a few minutes Googling and I couldn't find anything useful on point, so it's not like I'm saying anything new at this point either. If I were designing federal infrastructure spending packages, I would still steer the work to union shops, but I wouldn't tout the heightened stimulus effects as the reason to do it.
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Back in the day, the most effective part of the Dukakis campaign was his singular focus on "good jobs at good wages", and that was what stimulus was about.
If the slogan is "so-so jobs some of which will be at decent wages", well, ok then, but it doesn't seem like what people want from stimulus spending.
