Cutting Government Jobs

I was reading a Washington Monthly article which suggests that the public is probably ambivalent about deep cuts in federal spending. Cutting government budgets means laying off government workers, no surprises there.

Surveys show most government employees vote Democratic. For a Republican congress to cut funding for government programs is a way to make a group of not-poor Democrats take the hit.

We often write about unintended consequences that are bad. Cutting government workers has unintended consequences that are good, a kind of virtuous circle.