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Flummoxed. That's MY word, Damn It!!!
It's a good word. I find myself flummoxed from time to time as well.
Flummoxed. That's MY word, Damn It!!!
It's not a higher subsidy. It's a higher threshold of income to receive the subsidy.
Quite honestly...the less employees you hire...the more you can pay them. I have never SEEN a Costco. They won't put them in my area. They won't even put a publix. Do you know how bad that sucks?
I am curious as to what areas Walmart and other places have been beaten out by dollar general, and also to see the lowest avg income of the areas around Costco vs walmart.
Anyway. Business isn't the enemy. We have an anti-business mentality in office, lots of anti-business people around, and a lot of business owners covering their ass afraid to make a move.
That "anti-business mentality" must be why so many Corporations are reporting record profits. Nothing boosts profits like Govt. meddling I guess.
About half of S&P 500 profits come from overseas. A lot of those profits remain parked abroad. Much of the rest comes more in spite of our government than because of it.
Cash Hoard Grows by $187 Billion in Untaxed Overseas Profits - Bloomberg
Personal disposable income has grown nearly 6 times more under Democratic presidents
•Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown 7 times more under Democratic presidents
•Corporate profits have grown over 16% more per year under Democratic presidents (they actually declined under Republicans by an average of 4.53%/year)
•Average annual compound return on the stock market has been 18 times greater under Democratic presidents (If you invested $100k for 40 years of Republican administrations you had $126k at the end, if you invested $100k for 40 years of Democrat administrations you had $3.9M at the end)
•Republican presidents added 2.5 times more to the national debt than Democratic presidents
•The two times the economy steered into the ditch (Great Depression and Great Recession) were during Republican, laissez faire administrations
Right just keep believing that. Democrats are far better for the economy and business than Republicans. That is just a fact.
Why hasn't capitalism done it yet then?