for the millionth time...TAX CUTS DO NOT CREATE JOBS!

[Hugabear]

If lower taxes created jobs, then unemployment should be at near-record lows.

Instead, unemployment has risen drastically over the last decade, even as tax rates are low, and many mega-corporations are paying NO TAXES AT ALL.

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[adhd_what_huh]

2. word to your mother and....rec

[badtoworse]

3. Do too! Do too!

The problem is they're not creating them in this country. The stuff people are buying with the extra money isn't being made here (these days, what is?). We need to address the reasons why business isn't investing here and make the country more competitive in the world market. That will help create private scetor jobs which is what we need.

Massive spending on infrastructure isn't the answer. That will only make it easier and faster to move the stuff made in China from the docks to the stores.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. tax cuts to lower income people are a good economic stimulus

People living paycheck to paycheck will spend rather than save any additional money in that paycheck. Low end tax cuts are a good economic stimulus, not the best in terms of effect for dollar spent - infrastructure spending is better, but good. Also if done right low end tax cuts can have an immediate effect, whereas infrastructure spending has a considerable startup lag.

If you mean tax cuts for billionaires and millionaires - yes they are piss poor at economic stimulus.

The payroll tax cut is stimulative and will indirectly create jobs. There are other arguments against it, but those arguments are not about its stimulative effect.

[Shagbark Hickory]

5. The man we all voted for seems to think so. Are you calling him a liar?

:shrug:

[Quantess]

7. In that particular nstance, yes.

Sure, if the shoe fits.

[Poiuyt]

6. I could see giving tax incentives to businesses that create new jobs IN THIS COUNTRY

but I would raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires to previous levels. And not just on payroll income, but on capital gains as well. That's where the super rich gets most of income.