That's nonsensical. Say Michigan wants to add one government job. How do they pay for the salary, benefits, pension and retiree medical? They tax the people and businesses of Michigan, right? So while one person now has a job and therefore an income that can be spent in the economy, others have commensurately less money to spend in the economy because their taxes are incrementally higher. First order effects are essentially zero-sum. There's no magic money pot to pay Michigan government workers with that doesn't negatively impact other Michigan workers.
And the argument from the right will be, often with justification IMO, that a dollar spent on a private industry worker is a more efficiently spent dollar than a dollar spent on a government worker, so second-order effects to increased government employment is negative.
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