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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: i-node who wrote (27307)9/19/2013 2:19:15 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
but any fool that claims it isn't killing jobs is spewing fairy tales. It is pretty obvious when you see part-time hires outpacing full-time by a ratio of 6 to 1 this year, that something is causing it

I suppose they could argue the technicality that part time jobs are still jobs. An in fact with more part timers there will probably be more total people employed then there otherwise would have been (just fewer total hours). Its a technicality not something actually meaningful.

And it might not even be true as a technicality, there would be a certain degree of economic cost despite the efforts to get around it, and a higher number of part time jobs then full time jobs to get the same work done might not make up for it.

Also I notice their argument for it being false is "but experts predict a small impact on mainly low-wage jobs"; but even if that war right it would mean that the claim of killing jobs is also correct, just a smaller effect.
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