Health insurers pour money into GOP campaigns, hoping to limit new regulations

[mudwhistle]

Unions represent less than 10% of labor in this country. The now defunct ACORN supported and fought for the minimum wage and helped poor people get jobs. Two shady organizations.

Unlike the Republican Party that has sent millions of American jobs to China from 2001 to 2008. Worked to deny unemployment benefits for the resulting unemployed and strives to keep America pure from the those nasty gays, Hispanics and Muslims.

At least the Republicans had the class to Apologize to BP. Yea, they showed us exactly how much class they have.

How many jobs is Obama planning to send to China. How many has he already sent to Brazil?

Race-baiting and Marxist tactics isn't gonna win this one for you.

I believe Obama wants to create jobs here. Unlike Republicans. You know that right? Republicans have no plans to create jobs here. If you don't believe it, please give an example of Republicans creating jobs. But make it a real one. Don't say, "If we let oil companies drill everywhere they want for free, they will give Americans jobs cleaning up oil companies mess".

That's easy. By lowering taxes companies can afford to hire more workers. They can afford to expand.

Everyone will have more cash to spend on goods and services instead of giving it to government which tends to raise demand for products and thus tends to increase the need for more workers to meet the demand. Pretty simple if you understand the market system. Course this only works in a free society and a strong private sector.

 

[Care4all]

How many jobs is Obama planning to send to China. How many has he already sent to Brazil?

Race-baiting and Marxist tactics isn't gonna win this one for you.

I believe Obama wants to create jobs here. Unlike Republicans. You know that right? Republicans have no plans to create jobs here. If you don't believe it, please give an example of Republicans creating jobs. But make it a real one. Don't say, "If we let oil companies drill everywhere they want for free, they will give Americans jobs cleaning up oil companies mess".

That's easy. By lowering taxes companies can afford to hire more workers. They can afford to expand.

Everyone will have more cash to spend on goods and services instead of giving it to government which tends to raise demand for products and thus tends to increase the need for more workers to meet the demand. Pretty simple if you understand the market system. Course this only works in a free society and a strong private sector.

But their taxes were ALREADY LOWERED, and the past 3 years with those lowered taxes on businesses, they still DID NOT HIRE for the most part?

So are you saying, lower them even more and add even more to the deficit or are you saying take away the money spent on the unemployed and give that money to businesses as well, who are not hiring with their first tax break?

The thing is mud, whether these small businesses via individual income taxes they have to pay over the $250k...the 3.5% more in taxes over the 250k, is NOT going to make any of these businesses hire or lay off people or not hire people.
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What will make them hire, is when their businesses need more people to keep up with their increased sales....their increased demand.

These businesses are only going to hire when they need to hire, regardless of the tax rate.

 

[Revere]

Nobody will hire until Obamacare is repealed, and the threat of the yoke of more employer mandates has passed.

 

[Care4all]

Nobody will hire until Obamacare is repealed, and the threat of the yoke of more employer mandates has passed.

but even then Revere, they will NOT hire, UNLESS their business is increasing in sales and requires them to put on more people....and that is not automatic either cuz first they will try to increase the productivity of their existing employees and only when their existing employees are about to bust with the work overload, will they begin to hire, under most situations.

Of course there could be some exceptions....but for the MOST PART, they will not hire until they need to hire, whether there are new tax breaks or whether obama is no longer in power or Democrats are no longer in power....they will not hire, until demand dictates that they NEED to hire....

So I am uncertain that either tax breaks or a new regime is really going to be the KEY to hire again for these people.

Sure, it plays well for Republicans to argue such in an election year, but in reality, all it is, is political posturing in an election year and just false hope, hot air.

 

[Revere]

Companies who won't hire because they don't know what new tax or regulation is under the next rock is not "hot air."

 

[Care4all]

Companies who won't hire because they don't know what new tax or regulation is under the next rock is not "hot air."

I believe it is...because the small business is not what is being taxed if the tax breaks expire, it is the individual that is being taxed on their individual adjusted, taxable income earned over and above the $250k, and that over the $250k will be taxed at about 3.5% more, but below the $250k will not have a tax hike at all for the couple.

And because only 2% of the people in this country earn more than $250k, so very few small businesses in comparison to the whole of small businesses would even be affected by the minuscule tax hike, when the overall picture is viewed...again, imo.

Regardless, I do think that $250k is not what it used to be, and people making this kind of taxable income should not be considered, or in the bracket of, the very wealthiest....I would like to see some reform that begins the top bracket with taxable incomes closer to a million vs the $250k.

(Surely $250k taxable income may be an awful lot if in Mississippi or South Dakota but not so much if in NYC or California....)

 

[Care4all]

let's be honest here.

If it were the Democratic party receiving all of these campaign donations that the GOP is receiving for this election, Conservatives would be screaming 'foul' and pegging the dems as being in the pocket of the health insurance lobby.

Seems, what goes around, comes around and neither side has issue, unless it is their opponents doing it, for the most part...not for all, but for the most, imho.

 

[rdean]

I believe Obama wants to create jobs here. Unlike Republicans. You know that right? Republicans have no plans to create jobs here. If you don't believe it, please give an example of Republicans creating jobs. But make it a real one. Don't say, "If we let oil companies drill everywhere they want for free, they will give Americans jobs cleaning up oil companies mess".

That's easy. By lowering taxes companies can afford to hire more workers. They can afford to expand.

Everyone will have more cash to spend on goods and services instead of giving it to government which tends to raise demand for products and thus tends to increase the need for more workers to meet the demand. Pretty simple if you understand the market system. Course this only works in a free society and a strong private sector.

But their taxes were ALREADY LOWERED, and the past 3 years with those lowered taxes on businesses, they still DID NOT HIRE for the most part?

So are you saying, lower them even more and add even more to the deficit or are you saying take away the money spent on the unemployed and give that money to businesses as well, who are not hiring with their first tax break?

The thing is mud, whether these small businesses via individual income taxes they have to pay over the $250k...the 3.5% more in taxes over the 250k, is NOT going to make any of these businesses hire or lay off people or not hire people.
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What will make them hire, is when their businesses need more people to keep up with their increased sales....their increased demand.

These businesses are only going to hire when they need to hire, regardless of the tax rate.

For some reason, they think America can compete with the Chinese who are paying their workers anywhere from 88 dollars a month to 142 dollars a month and their engineers 730 dollars a month.

And, we have engineers and companies moving from this country to China.

How can we compete with that? Maybe because the Republicans want to repeal the minimum wage. Maybe they feel Americans should be making 88 dollars a month.