or taxes lead to persistent decreases in the rate of job growth. you know who said that, mark? the federal reserve, for crying out cloud! to your point, study after study shows just the opposite of what you re claiming. mark, go ahead. take him on. if you want to see more construction work, you want to see more construction job, build more bridges, build more highways. the government does that. that gets more money. really? we re not talking about apples to apples. yes, you build your roads outside your house. i don t know about you, i don t travel on private roads. i use the government roads. private contractors build the bridges and the roads. hold on. let me give you a specific example. you talked about clergy. a lot of clergy serve in war zones. guess what? if you serve in war zone, they want a little more money. doctors are paid less. the one job that they really deserve a lot more money are the janitors cause can you imagine
sam, is that what we should all be doing? they make more money and get jobs. well, to mark s point, the build-up in the government is great. you know why? they live in a different world than the rest of society. a great world there. you know what unemployment is in construction? it s 12%. and to mark s point, let me also add one example, you know, the people on the liberal side will claim, the government is not really like for like job, they re doing more complicated. i found a job that should be the same in both. clergy. as far as i know, god is god. clergy in the government gets paid $70,000 a year. in the private sector, $39,000. so maybe i m missing something, but to mark s point as government as stimulus, i want to read a quote. growth in government stunts general economic growth and increases in government spending
thank you, pat. i m not giving up. and the other issue is that if you look your point, which is that a state or government, they can t go bankrupt. if they re losing money, they have to pay the benefits. in a normal private business, if they overpromise, they go bankrupt and it goes away. you are quiet not quiet. mark, i think the point here is that government is choosing industries to invest in. most likely most of us would agree they do need to create the national highway system and all the rest, but that s not where all the money is going right now. that s where a lot of stimulus package went, to infrastructure. no it didn t. the alternative minimum tax. it gave 95% of tax cuts to working people. which i support. a lot of it, yeah, went to infrastructure. you talk about government jobs, i m an example i had a government job, i used to work in congress and i had a huge pay
i ll let you say it. i won t say it either. because i share your sentiment. i think to put it into context, this is not just one or two people. there is over 600 staffers on capitol hill that owe more than $8 million in taxes. i m not trying to be a hard guy, but i think if you are in charge of making the laws of the land, you should live by the laws of the land and just like the irs, by the way, you don t pay your taxes, you get fired. i think it should apply to everyone on capitol hill. congressmen, senators, and these staffers who aren t paying. that should be the bottom line. look, as you point out, everyone else has to pay. these people should pay, too. yeah. it applies just to the irs and why not you guys on the hill, mark? well, if it s intentional and it s egregious, absolutely, fire them. but it depends. if i failed to declare a 2-dollar tip, should i go to jail? should i be fired?
best movie and that s in those great swag bags the celebrities get. we re going to do a poll. join us for fox & friends. this is a fox news alert. we re creating jobs. the problem is, they re federal government jobs. uncle sam adding 7,000 new workers last month as another 36,000 americans get the pink slips. and not only do they have the jobs, now they have the money, too. a lot more money than those of us in the private sector. is that the problem? hi, everyone. this is bulls and bears. let s get right to it. here they are, the bulls and bears. gary, tobin smith, pat dorsey, inside scoop radio show host mark la convenient. welcome to everybody. erik, washington is where it s at. we should all be working there. is that a problem?