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I find it interesting you talk about fear of regulation, then use an example that is a demand-side problem. Basically, you confirmed what I've been saying for a while, which is that businesses are not expanding due to low sales and not due to fear of regulations.
I believe both of those factors are tied together at the hip so to speak so were both right.
Actually, no. Unless you can point out a policy Obama has implemented or will soon that will negatively effect demand for your company.
I'll give you one example of jobs lost because of fear.... I am willing and able to buy another company truck. It's about a 50k investment. I have the money but am scared to death to spend it because I don't feel confident that I will have enough work through the next year to justify the investment.
Now do you consider me one of those evil and greedy business men?
I find it interesting you talk about fear of regulation, then use an example that is a demand-side problem. Basically, you confirmed what I've been saying for a while, which is that businesses are not expanding due to low sales and not due to fear of regulations.
I believe both of those factors are tied together at the hip so to speak so were both right.
Actually, no. Unless you can point out a policy Obama has implemented or will soon that will negatively effect demand for your company.
I believe both of those factors are tied together at the hip so to speak so were both right.
Actually, no. Unless you can point out a policy Obama has implemented or will soon that will negatively effect demand for your company.
Hidden within the healthcare bill was a regulation that required every transaction over 600 dollars to be followed with a report detailing the transaction. That's nearly every transaction I make.
One very positive way is the way both FDR and Eisenhower did it, which is by creating necessary make-work projects, such as the CCC (Civilian Construction Corps - per FDR), by infrastructure repair and expansion and by highway construction (Eisenhower). These projects created millions of jobs, which fostered and expanded many vibrant industries and in turn generated income tax revenue from the newly employed workers.Please explain to me how raising taxes is going to help create jobs.
Easing taxes and regulations can help to create jobs which in turn will broaden the tax base which will increase revenue.
So again explain the path from raising taxes to jobs for me please.
I believe both of those factors are tied together at the hip so to speak so were both right.
Actually, no. Unless you can point out a policy Obama has implemented or will soon that will negatively effect demand for your company.
Hidden within the healthcare bill was a regulation that required every transaction over 600 dollars to be followed with a report detailing the transaction. That's nearly every transaction I make.
The public in general fears the future so they sit on their money as well. My receipts have declined over 22% since 2008. And my ability to "cherrypick" the jobs I want to bid or take is completely gone. All because people are afraid to spend money. It is a spiral going down which includes your thoughts as well as mine.
Please explain to me how raising taxes is going to help create jobs.
Easing taxes and regulations can help to create jobs which in turn will broaden the tax base which will increase revenue.
So again explain the path from raising taxes to jobs for me please.
We have the lowest taxes in 60 years at least and it's not creating jobs.
Now explain how cutting government spending will help create jobs. Explain how cutting, for example, the number of defense contracts the Pentagon spends billions on,
to private businesses in the US,
will create more, instead of fewer, jobs at those businesses.
There is NO job creating path to fiscal responsibility, getting rid of the deficit, balancing the budget, paying down the debt.
None. Period. Austerity hurts. Period. Stop pretending it doesn't.
thats the whole point.
One issue has nothig to do with another.
The debt is one problem
Unemployment is another.
So our goal should be to solve one without having a negative affect on the other.....IF WE CAN.
And that is what the debate should be about.
Please explain to me how raising taxes is going to help create jobs.
Easing taxes and regulations can help to create jobs which in turn will broaden the tax base which will increase revenue.
So again explain the path from raising taxes to jobs for me please.
We have the lowest taxes in 60 years at least and it's not creating jobs.
Now explain how cutting government spending will help create jobs. Explain how cutting, for example, the number of defense contracts the Pentagon spends billions on,
to private businesses in the US,
will create more, instead of fewer, jobs at those businesses.
There is NO job creating path to fiscal responsibility, getting rid of the deficit, balancing the budget, paying down the debt.
None. Period. Austerity hurts. Period. Stop pretending it doesn't.
thats the whole point.
One issue has nothig to do with another.
The debt is one problem
Unemployment is another.
So our goal should be to solve one without having a negative affect on the other.....IF WE CAN.
And that is what the debate should be about.
The real solutions are politically toxic.
Politicians are in charge of finding the real solutions.
Therefore, the chances of finding real solutions are slim
Actually, no. Unless you can point out a policy Obama has implemented or will soon that will negatively effect demand for your company.
Hidden within the healthcare bill was a regulation that required every transaction over 600 dollars to be followed with a report detailing the transaction. That's nearly every transaction I make.
The public in general fears the future so they sit on their money as well. My receipts have declined over 22% since 2008. And my ability to "cherrypick" the jobs I want to bid or take is completely gone. All because people are afraid to spend money. It is a spiral going down which includes your thoughts as well as mine.
The 1099 reporting requirement you are referring to was repealed. So no worries there.
As for the public's fear of the future, I think you have that wrong. The public has been paying down debts, not saving. And I would think you would agree with me that if there was a way to get consumers spending again, that would fix a lot of problems.
I failed to mention in an earlier message that National Infrastructure includes more than bridges and highways. The following is excerpted from an article I suggest you read:Well your idea about roads and bridges creating jobs is a myth imo. I live in KC. It has a large population with high unemployment. We have major road and bridge projects going on every year including before the downturn. Those projects have had 0 impact on our unemployed.
Too bad all those shovel ready jobs we were told about weren't really shovel ready. It's just like everything else, all concept and no management.
It's been said many times, we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. We also have a recession problem, the economy is stagnating and Obama's policies are suffocating any chance of real growth. Great, we get 3% growth in GDP then down below 2%, that ain't no way to convince people to take a chance on a new business or expand an existing one. Ever increasing regulations, higher HC and energy costs, executive branch agencies like the EPA and NLRB enacting policies that kill jobs, and a president that badmouths business from day 1.
You know what'll happen when you raise taxes on the rich? The dems will try to spend it on some redistribution program that won't work. They don't care about debt reduction and reducing the deficits, never have and never will. For them it's all about social democracy, an ever bigger government and safety net that gets them more votes in the next election. To be fair, the GOP went down that road with Bush43, and there are still some repubs in congress who would gladly return to those days. But I'm thinking their days are numbered, and the GOP is not going to repeat the mistakes made earlier in this decade. At least I hope not.
■Treasury Department figures show that actual corporate income tax revenues fell to $132 billion in 2003, down 36 percent from $207 billion in 2000.
■As a result of these low levels, corporate revenues in 2003 represented only 1.2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (the basic measure of the size of the economy), the lowest level since 1983, the year in which corporate receipts plummeted to levels last seen in the 1930s.
■Corporate revenues represented only 7.4 percent of all federal tax receipts in 2003. With the exception of 1983, this represents the lowest level on record (these data go back to 1934).
The Decline of Corporate Income Tax Revenues — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Notice that taxes for corporations have steadily declined and yet they have not produced the jobs that the republicans claim that lower taxes will create.
■Treasury Department figures show that actual corporate income tax revenues fell to $132 billion in 2003, down 36 percent from $207 billion in 2000.
■As a result of these low levels, corporate revenues in 2003 represented only 1.2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (the basic measure of the size of the economy), the lowest level since 1983, the year in which corporate receipts plummeted to levels last seen in the 1930s.
■Corporate revenues represented only 7.4 percent of all federal tax receipts in 2003. With the exception of 1983, this represents the lowest level on record (these data go back to 1934).
The Decline of Corporate Income Tax Revenues — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Notice that taxes for corporations have steadily declined and yet they have not produced the jobs that the republicans claim that lower taxes will create.
That's because more and more wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
When 400 people control half the wealth in America, the economy is being starved to death by the wealthy.
Too bad all those shovel ready jobs we were told about weren't really shovel ready. It's just like everything else, all concept and no management.
It's been said many times, we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. We also have a recession problem, the economy is stagnating and Obama's policies are suffocating any chance of real growth. Great, we get 3% growth in GDP then down below 2%, that ain't no way to convince people to take a chance on a new business or expand an existing one. Ever increasing regulations, higher HC and energy costs, executive branch agencies like the EPA and NLRB enacting policies that kill jobs, and a president that badmouths business from day 1.
You know what'll happen when you raise taxes on the rich? The dems will try to spend it on some redistribution program that won't work. They don't care about debt reduction and reducing the deficits, never have and never will. For them it's all about social democracy, an ever bigger government and safety net that gets them more votes in the next election. To be fair, the GOP went down that road with Bush43, and there are still some repubs in congress who would gladly return to those days. But I'm thinking their days are numbered, and the GOP is not going to repeat the mistakes made earlier in this decade. At least I hope not.
We have a revenue problem.
Clinton left Bush with a balanced budget.
Bush cut taxes and raised spending on two useless wars.
We need to repeal the Bush tax cuts and stop the military occupations.
■Treasury Department figures show that actual corporate income tax revenues fell to $132 billion in 2003, down 36 percent from $207 billion in 2000.
■As a result of these low levels, corporate revenues in 2003 represented only 1.2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (the basic measure of the size of the economy), the lowest level since 1983, the year in which corporate receipts plummeted to levels last seen in the 1930s.
■Corporate revenues represented only 7.4 percent of all federal tax receipts in 2003. With the exception of 1983, this represents the lowest level on record (these data go back to 1934).
The Decline of Corporate Income Tax Revenues — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Notice that taxes for corporations have steadily declined and yet they have not produced the jobs that the republicans claim that lower taxes will create.
That's because more and more wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
When 400 people control half the wealth in America, the economy is being starved to death by the wealthy.
Clinton did not.. he ran a deficit EVERY year he was in office. He left a $5.8 trillion deficit.