# Economic woes solving plan: Government hires everyone **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 22, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-woes-solving-plan-government-hires-everyone/589944 "2011-07-22T04:18:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-woes-solving-plan-government-hires-everyone/589944/13 "2011-07-22T16:45:00Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > So…where are we going to get an extra trillion or so dollars A YEAR for this wonderful plan?? > > Just curious…I’m sure the OP has a plan for that as well. > > -XT Borrow it! > [@Let's Tax Lottery Winnings at 90%](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tax-lottery-winnings-at-90/589175/132): > > It’s not accurate to say “we’ve run out of credit” if countries will loan us trillions more if we just ask. It’s not like we’re a minimum wage worker taking out a $90,000 loan to buy an Aston Martin. All we have to do is ask and countries will lend us as much as we want. Or tax the rich, this thread is simply a conclusion to the wealth redistribution thought process. All those new employees will spend which creates demand, gets multiplied, and multiplied again, and then I think it’s multiplied again, and creates more money! With the added bonus that once there are no more people looking for jobs, it will be an employees market again, and those still in the private sector can start making more and more demands, that if refused means they’ll get a nice job with the government and a $10k salary bump (since median income is in around $50k now). But on a more serious question, what happens if all these 12.5 million people unionize and want a 20% pay increase? Was a cost of living adjustment built into the plan? Or does inflation not exist in this bizzaro world. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-woes-solving-plan-government-hires-everyone/589944)._