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Of course, Mccain is a hero and Obama is a thief. I think I'm beginning to understand the GOP way of thinking.
As stated, after the tax cuts jobs were created. That is a proven fact.
Read slower. Not due to tax cuts. You have those tax cuts in place right now, and yet jobs were lost. We have history to show other times with other tax cuts and the economy did not improve. We have studies showing that tax cuts do not create jobs. Slow down, read slowly, think about it, address the rebuttal.
What is a fact is that there was at least one case where a tax cut preceded an increase in jobs. It is not a proven fact that all tax cuts are followed by increases in jobs. The data for the relationship between income tax cuts and job creation shows them to be highly uncorrelated. Other kinds of tax cuts seem to have more impact than income taxes in terms of job creation.
Read slower. Not due to tax cuts. You have those tax cuts in place right now, and yet jobs were lost. We have history to show other times with other tax cuts and the economy did not improve. We have studies showing that tax cuts do not create jobs. Slow down, read slowly, think about it, address the rebuttal.
Jobs are being lost in droves because business doesn't do well in uncertain times. Obama is on a spending binge like never seen. He's about to hit them with unknown additional tax burdens due to his healthcare bill and God only knows what else he's got in store for them.
After the 2006 elections when Democrats made big gains, and again in 2008, business started running for the hills. Once businesses feels comfortable again about the environment they're operating in, jobs will start to return.
Once businesses feels comfortable again about the environment they're operating in, jobs will start to return.
I totally understand, people keeping more of their money and deciding how to spend it doesn't impact our GDP, got it. Higher GDP doesn't mean more jobs, got it! Higher demand doesn't increase jobs, got it!
What we have now is the threat of increased taxes and no one knows how much Obamacare will cost. As a business person would you hire more people now? in the meantime the people that are working have more take home pay. That is a good thing.
Even if true, taxes don't change that. But, mostly, what you blame for uncertainty is false. The concern of business is customers and sales. All other things will be handled if there are customers and sales. They don't make business decisions concerning employment based on which party is in office. Hell, both parties work for them. From their point of view, there's not really much difference. Business will feel comfortable when people start spending their money.
Wonder why liberals don't send more of their own money to D.C. instead of forcing others to do it. You think the govt. needs the money more than the individual? Prove it, send more of yours instead of just what is required.
You are right, raising taxes gives people incentive to spend more money.
I do send more than is required. And in some cases, the government does need the money more than the individual. How does an individual pay for law enforcement? I don't think that having each person pay tuition for their child would be in the best interests of the country because not everyone would be able to afford the tuition. I don't think that it is practical to have a toll on every road that I travel and having the government collect taxes and pay for that road for all of us to use is a good thing. The government should make sure that companies are not poisoning me with bad products or pollution. I can go on, but I don't think it will influence your thinking on this subject.
Wonder why liberals don't send more of their own money to D.C. instead of forcing others to do it. You think the govt. needs the money more than the individual? Prove it, send more of yours instead of just what is required.
Even if true, taxes don't change that. But, mostly, what you blame for uncertainty is false. The concern of business is customers and sales. All other things will be handled if there are customers and sales. They don't make business decisions concerning employment based on which party is in office. Hell, both parties work for them. From their point of view, there's not really much difference. Business will feel comfortable when people start spending their money.
For most, there won't be enough to have any effect at all. And business won't ever see enough of a cut or increase to make them do anything.
Individuals pay for law enforcement with their local taxes, not the Federal Taxes.
I could've sworn Obama, Pelosi and Reid all pay taxes. Maybe I'm wrong.
Last I checked FBI, DEA, Border Patrol, Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, ATF, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Secret Service are all paid for with Federal taxes.
I disagree completely. Companies operate on margin. Risk and expansion is based almost solely on being able to project maintaining within a certain margin. Margin is affected greatly by taxes, as well as other factors like sales, operating expenses, the financial condition of associated partners (companies), etc.
If you raise taxes, you affect all areas that ultimately can effect margin. Once risk is unacceptable based on the margin of return, you cut costs and labor. If those tax burdens are expected to possibly increase, you prepare for further cuts.
That's where we are. That's EXACTLY how my company has operated the past three years. And given, at the very least, a gridlocked governement that can't throw new surprises at us, we're preparing to start investing and expanding once again.
Thank you for your expert opinion on running a business and how business owners operate. You also seem to be an expert on consumer spending and what consumers do when they get to keep more of their own money. What you give here is your personal opinion based upon never running your own business and apparently never looking at your own paycheck to see if there was more or less money in it thus it doesn't matter to you so you spend regardless of what is in it. Wonder if you really believe you are like the average American?
Yep, they pay taxes, what is your point. All three are multi, multi millionaires who seem to have forgotten what it was like on the other end.
Wonder why liberals don't send more of their own money to D.C. instead of forcing others to do it. You think the govt. needs the money more than the individual? Prove it, send more of yours instead of just what is required.
Yep, and none of them are involved in local law enforcement, that would be the police and fire departments.
How does an individual pay for law enforcement?
And when they project, the most important factor is how much they can sell and how much porfit they are liely to bring in. Taxes, as they are part of business and change from time to time, have a much smaller effect. Especially individual taxes. You could eliminate all buisiness taxes, and if they could get cheaper labor in Mexico, they would still go to Mexico. You could cut all taxes, and if people weren't buying, business would still nto invest. You could increase taxes, and if the labor was cheaper here, they would still stay here. You could increase taxes a lot, and if their product was selling and people were spending, business would hire and move on.
We also have studies that clearly show taxes have no real effect on jobs. One just came out recently saying a tax cut would not create jobs. And a tax increase would not cost jobs.
That was the question. The individual said nothing about local. Come on guys, lets keep up with the issues.