Neoliberaal Beleid

De neoliberale politiek van belastingvoordelen voor de rijken en het bezuinigen op sociale uitkeringen voor de armen leidt niet tot meer werkgelegenheid, zo blijkt uit het bericht van de onafhankelijke Amerikaanse internet-nieuwsdienst Alternet: 'President Bush's beloved tax cuts have neither grown the economy nor created new jobs. So why should we extend them? The Bush tax cuts did not produce new jobs. In 2003, the President's Council on Economic Advisers promised 5.5 million new jobs by 2004, but only 2.6 million jobs were actually created. The jobs created failed to even match the 4.1 million new jobs expected in a normally functioning economy, let alone one supposedly supercharged by tax cuts. Yet that hasn't stopped conservative forecasters from chanting the "tax cuts create jobs" mantra in 2005. The quality of jobs, measured by income, health insurance and retirement benefits, has also declined appreciably since the 2001 tax cuts. Between 2000 and 2004, inflation-adjusted family income declined, and the number of U.S. workers covered by employer-provided retirement benefits and health insurance contracted.' Zie: http://www.alternet.org/story/28626/ Desondanks gaat dit verwoestende beleid gewoon door in zowel de VS als in Nederland.