Re:Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice
by ams6110 on Thursday August 22, 2013 @08:15PM
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Government gets its money by siphoning it out of the local economy, making that capital unavailable for private use while creating nothing of value. Government jobs are a net drain on an economy.
A government saves money if it pays €x to employ local taxpayers instead of sending that same amount abroad. It will still break even on the decision if it employs locals for €x+n, where n is the amount they recoup in tax from those locals. Even more if those locals would otherwise be unemployed.