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In the book Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, Hazlitt outlines the broken window fallacy. Engage Mid-Hudson is the embodiment of the broken window fallacy. In order to create a non-market job, Engage Mid-Hudson must ask for taxes to fund the job. The taxes reduce private-sector demand. Therefore, although there may be an illusion of job creation for a short time, Engage Mid Hudson will not create jobs. Moreover, the jobs that Engage Mid Hudson will destroy are better jobs than the ones it will create. By better I mean they reflect legitimate human wants better. They are not attributable to the irresponsible fantasies of greedy government bureaucrats and their cronies, who are not afraid to use violence (i.e., the tax system) to impose their will on others.