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Why the President Must Come Up With Demand-Side Solutions, and Not Go Over to the Supply Side

“I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we’re on is not producing jobs as fast as I want it to happen,” President Obama said Tuesday, amid the flood of bad economic news, including last Friday’s alarming jobs report.

Does this mean we’re about to see a bold package of ideas from the White House for spurring growth of jobs and wages? Sadly, it doesn’t seem so.

Obama says he’s interested in exploring with Republicans extending some of the measures that were part of that tax-cut package “to make sure that we get this recovery up and running in a robust way.”

Accordingly, the White House is mulling a temporary cut in the payroll taxes businesses pay on wages. White House advisors figure this may appeal to Republican lawmakers who have been discussing the same idea. It would, in essence, match the 2 percent reduction in employee contributions to payroll taxes this year, enacted as part of the deal to extend the Bush tax cuts.

Other ideas under consideration at the White House include a corporate tax cut, accompanied by the closing of some corporate tax loopholes.

Can we get real for a moment? Businesses don’t need more financial incentives. They’re already sitting on a vast cash horde estimated to be upwards of $1.6 trillion. Besides, large and middle-sized companies are having no difficulty getting loans at bargain-basement rates, courtesy of the Fed.

In consequence, businesses are already spending as much as they can justify economically. Almost two-thirds of the measly growth in the economy so far this year has come from businesses rebuilding their inventories. But without more consumer spending, businesses won’t spend more. A robust economy can’t be built on inventory replacements.

The problem isn’t on the supply side. It’s on the demand side. Businesses are reluctant to spend more and create more jobs because there aren’t enough consumers out there able and willing to buy what businesses have to sell.

The reason consumers aren’t buying is because consumers’ paychecks are dropping, adjusted for inflation. And job losses are mounting. The 83,000 new private-sector jobs created in May represent a net loss because 125,000 jobs are needed merely to keep up with an expanding labor force. The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits edged higher last week.

At the same time, many Americans are falling behind in their mortgage payments. And housing prices continue to drop – making homeowners feel even poorer.

Close to 60 percent of the half-trillion drop in household debt since the depth of recession has been defaults rather than repayments. This makes it harder for people who’d like to enter the housing market to get new mortgage loans, or for anyone to refinance.  Other consumer debt burdens are rising. On Tuesday the Fed reported consumer credit outstanding rose in April – mostly from record-high levels of student-loan debt and an up-tick in credit-card borrowing due to food and gas price increases outpacing wage gains.

All this translates into a continuing crisis on the demand side. Consumers can’t and won’t buy more. Between January and March, sales grew just .15 percent around the country – perilously close to no growth at all. May sales look even worse. Chain stores are reporting weaker sales. Consumer confidence has dropped sharply.

How to get jobs back, then? By reigniting demand. Put more money in consumers’ pockets and help them renegotiate their mortgage loans.

For example: Enlarge the payroll tax break for workers — not just for employers. Exempt the first $20,000 of income from payroll taxes for a year. Create a WPA for the long-term unemployed. Allow distressed homeowners to declare bankruptcy on their primary residence, thereby giving them more clout with lenders to reorganize their mortgage loans. Lend federal money to (rather than bail out) states and cities that are now firing platoons of teachers, fire fighters, and other workers because state and local coffers are empty.

But we’re not hearing any of these sorts of demand-side solutions from the White House. In seeking Republican votes, Obama is putting forth Republican supply-side ideas – lowering the employer costs of hiring, cutting corporate taxes – that have nothing to do with this demand-side crisis. He may attract some Republican votes for these, but what’s the point if they’re irrelevant to the real problem?

The President’s putative embrace of the false notion that businesses need more financial incentives in order to hire also risks giving legitimacy to other Republican supply-side nostrums being pushed by House Republicans and GOP presidential aspirants. On Tuesday, Tim Pawlenty called for lower taxes on corporations (down to 15 percent from the current 35 percent), and lower taxes on the rich (to 25 percent from the current 35). Newt Gingirch wants to lower corperate income taxes to 12.5 percent and eliminate the estate tax altogether. And so on.

Better that the President advance ideas that work, and go to battle over them.

Supply-side economics doesn’t work. It’s been tried for thirty years, to no avail. And now, when our continuing economic crisis is so palpably being driven by inadequate demand, it’s bogus than ever.

The last thing we need is for the President to go over to the supply side.

This post originally appeared on RobertReich.org and is reproduced here with permission.

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Here's a clever way to create more consumer demand: Re-employ our unemployed workforce! Here's my idea: Instead of waiting for the government to solve our economic woes, let's launch an entrepreneurial blitzkrieg fueled by the financial power of Wall Street to create lots of jobs on Main Street! This will ramp up employment quickly and put money directly into the hands of the people who need it now: the consumers (whose spending represents 70 percent of GDP). This enormous financial turbo-boost to the economy will reinvigorate economic activity and quickly return the eight million jobs lost during the Great Recession. How do we make this happen? Read my proposal: http://jpbulko.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/20/6500…

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JohnCardilloJune 10th, 2011 at 9:29 am

Robert, I agree with your analysis and the conclusion that the problem is a lack of demand, but I don't think the proposed remedies will work. Any remedy that puts more money into the pockets of those who already have a job is not going to change where the products come from. They'll be more hiring, but it will still be in China. Nothing will change until trade is fare and balanced.

chuckaluckJune 10th, 2011 at 12:58 pm

You want to put more money in people’s pockets by letting them stiff the banks on their mortgages and keep their houses, uh, who’s going to pay to bail out the resulting bank failures? The Fed, with yet more debt that we can’t pay back? Increased deficit spending to have the Fed “lend” money to States and Municipalities to allow them to continue spending beyond their ability to pay? (If they could afford to pay the debt back, they’d be issuing Munis!) A WPA for the long term unemployed? That guarantees more deficit spending, boondoggles and cronyism as capital the government doesn’t have is inefficiently and unproductively blown. (That worked really well under Roosevelt, didn’t it? NO! IT FAILED. It took WWII to stimulate the economy to anything like full employment in spite of wasting vast sums of money. WPA was a failure. A Payroll tax break to employees on first $20k? Most folks who would get this would benefit only very marginally, and again, increases deficit spending. Do all Yale PhD’s believe in the Fed’s Magical Money Fairy? This article promotes the absolute worst actions we could possibly take! It honestly makes me feel sick to read these proposals. This is America, thank goodness we all have the freedom to express our opinions, but PLEASE lets come to our senses and stop Keynesian Socialists from destroying our country’s creditworthiness and the value of our currency!

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