[lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA

[Marvin Gandall]

I may have missed it (haven't read the whole thread) but have you touched on
how you would answer right-wingers who argue public employee jobs, pay and
benefits should be slashed because they increase the tax burden on workers
in the private sector, and that for this reason the right to strike should
also be withheld from public employees, and, where applicable, removed?

MG

Yoshie wrote:


> Wojtek wrote:
>
>> However, an important thing to keep in mind here is to view  government
>> as a producer of public goods - not just a guarantor of  capitalist
>> profits and oppressor of "da people."
>
> A government can produce public goods (education, health care, etc.),  but
> it can also produce public bads (a giant military, a huge prison,  big
> pollution, etc).  Both need to be paid for.  How are public goods  and
> bads to be paid for?  Taxes and user fees.  Where do taxes and  user fees
> come from?  Profits created by workers in the private sector.
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi
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