Scott Walker set up a "jobs program" that
handed
$124 million to businesses under his personal supervision, without
review. The result was to "create" around 2000 jobs, meaning the
State of Wisconsin paid a business $60,000 for each job.
The state could have made more jobs by hiring people directly.
The idea of paying companies to "create jobs" is inherently misguided.
from the public's point of view. The state loses a lot of money and
gets few jobs — many of which were not actually created, but
rather taken away from some other state. The only thing it is
effective for is giving money to businesses.
If legislators don't know this, the program is mistake foolish. If
they know, it is corrupt and dishonest, I think Walker knows, don't
you?
The effective way for the state to use money to create jobs
is to
give
the money to poor people. They will spend it.