{"id":6327,"date":"2010-07-30T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6327"},"modified":"2010-07-30T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T15:34:08","slug":"friday-july-30-2010-meg-whitman%e2%80%99s-job-creation-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6327\/friday-july-30-2010-meg-whitman%e2%80%99s-job-creation-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, July 30, 2010: Meg Whitman\u2019s Job Creation Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For political observers looking for a glimpse into former e-Bay CEO and current gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman\u2019s (R-CA) job creation plan, a 34 page glossy magazine is available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megwhitman.com\/userfiles\/pdfs\/Whitman_Meg_Policy_Agenda_Jobs.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">free download (pdf)<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megwhitman.com\/jobs_magazine_distribution.php \" target=\"_blank\">delivery<\/a>.\u00a0 As both a PR document and a policy manual, the plan is impressive.\u00a0 After listing the parade of economic horrible facing the Golden State, Whitman moves into prescription mode promising to promote tax cuts and streamline regulations that impede business.<\/p>\n<p>Implementing any of these measures would help California.\u00a0 Enacting all of them might actually save the state from financial collapse.\u00a0 However, there is one addition I\u2019d like to see that\u2019s currently missing.<\/p>\n<p>Tell the voters that governments can only create one type of job directly: a government job.\u00a0 Whether it is a formal state position, a job that is made necessary to comply with a regulation or one to get a government contract, all of these jobs redirect talent and resources towards expanding the tax burden by increasing government spending.<\/p>\n<p>A more sustainable model is implementing the kinds of policies Whitman is pushing; policies that create a tax and regulatory environment favorable to private sector job creation.\u00a0 The more private sector jobs created means more people have more money, allowing government to lower tax rates while providing the same level of services.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, Whitman as governor can\u2019t create directly a single private sector job without picking winners and losers.\u00a0 Instead, the most (and the best) she can do is create the conditions for success that allow private business to flourish and add workers.\u00a0 Who better to educate the public on that point than a person with top-level business executive experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For political observers looking for a glimpse into former e-Bay CEO and current gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman\u2019s (R-CA) job creation plan, a 34 page glossy magazine is available for free download (pdf) or delivery.\u00a0 As both a PR document and a policy manual, the plan is impressive.\u00a0 After listing the parade of economic horrible facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,19,454,1059,300,1619],"class_list":["post-6327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-economy","tag-job-creation","tag-meg-whitman","tag-regulation","tag-tax-cut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6329,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions\/6329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}