Pros And Cons Of Unemployment

Marginal propensity to consume is the idea that that consumers will spend more money if they have more, but increases in income do not lead to equal increases in consumption because people save some of the money. With this increase in aggregate demand, firms will need to produce more in ord... ... middle of paper ... ... in an increased price level if firm’s cannot expand output to meet that demand. If there is no expansion by firms, no additional employees may be hired to reduce the rate of unemployment. Therefore, a significant risk occurs when trying to decrease unemployment in an economy operating at its production possibilities frontier. As an economic advisor to the leadership of Bartvavia, I would not recommend attempting to adopt an expansionist fiscal policy aimed at reducing the already low unemployment.

Instead, it has negative immediate effects on the taxes, the population’s incentive to invest and the private sector. It has been established that taxes must be increased to provide the government with more spending money. As a r... ... middle of paper ... ...onomic freedom of a country. Since a government’s income comes from taxes, countries with a high percentage of government spending tend to have lower freedom indexes. The best place to put money is into the hands of the people, who are able to spend it more effectively compared to the government.

The National Health Service also reduces the amount of residual unemployed and therefore contributes to keeping employment levels high. Government borrowing should only occur if for investment purposes and if it will be repaid over the cycle, otherwise it destroys entrepreneur confidence and eventually leads to unemployment.

Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers Tariff and non-tariff effect global financing operations by having an impact on whether countries will build and invest in companies in the home country. If an organization wants to build a company that imports raw material that has a tariff on it, it would make the product considerably more expensive to produce and export. Tariffs do benefit the government by increasing the revenue and also benefit home-based businesses by decreasing foreign competition. The tariff also helps protect jobs in the industry that has eliminated the foreign competition but a negative impact is felt because it causes the consumer to pay more for a product that is imported (Hill, 2004). If a country it prone to levy tariffs on items that an organization may need, it would increase the risk of doing business while located in that company.

A government must weigh carefully these advantages and disadvantages before deciding to deficit spend to achieve the desired result. Another way of looking at deficit spending is The biggest advantage to deficit spending is the multiplier effect. This is when the government spends money back, which goes into the private sector of the economy, and it stimulates businesses to increase production. This requires more employees and then more people will have jobs putting their own money back into the economy. The multiplier effect is the desired outcome from deficit spending, as it will likely start an economy back on the right path after a recession (Lee, 2012).

Some argue that personal retirement accounts would be a mistake and that the government instead should set up its own investment fund to help finance future benefit payments. The good news is that this indicates a growing awareness that ¡°pre-funding¡± (i.e., accumulating assets) is a necessary component of Social Security reform. The bad news, however, is that government-controlled investment is the wrong answer to the wrong question. It assumes that policymakers should focus solely on balancing the program¡¯s revenues and expenditures. This ignores the other Social Security crisis¡ªthe fact that the tax burden on today¡¯s workers is extraordinarily high compared to the benefits received (often referred to as the rate-of-return crisis).

“The tariff also helps protect jobs in the industry that has eliminated the foreign competition but a negative impact is felt because it causes the consumer to pay more for a product that is imported” (Hill, 2004). If a country it prone to levy tariffs on items that an organization may need, it would increase the risk of doing business while located in that company. By having a country manufacture or produce product that can be done for less elsewhere is not a wise utilization of resources and in turn harms global trade. Tariff is a tax applied to an import and is one of the oldest trade policies in effect. This tax is generally revenue for the host country’s government.

This is the reason why taxation is a subject of such passionate debate as far as a country’s economy is concerned. Taxation is directly connected to economic growth. However, this does not point to definite patterns. For example, higher taxes do not necessarily mean stunted economic growth and vice versa. Tax adjustment usually serves to shift spending towards areas that stimulate economic... ... middle of paper ... ...he rich utilize more resources in terms of finances and human capital, thereby justifying their higher tax rates.

Our major programs are the Medicaid and Social Security programs. By making cut to the programs it can cause a imbalance of fairness. The people who need the government support are having it taken away when the high income class is still remaining the same with low taxation. It is only fair and logical to share the burden and make both cuts and raise taxation. “Interestingly, raising taxes to pay for current spending has proved more effective at restraining spending than allowing the government to finance its outlays with deficits”(Gale 2).

Mr. Emanuel, in the current economic climate, the Obama administration’s course of action has been to pursue aggressive countercyclical fiscal policies designed to prevent further economic deterioration. Critics of these policies argue that: 1. The current fiscal stimulus is ineffective and has done little to create new jobs at a significant cost. 2. Monetary policy is a more effective lever to reduce unemployment and smooth the business cycle, due to its shorter implementation lag and ability to act in small multiples.