The Real Job Creators: Consumers

[nitroz]

Today on Face the Nation (hosted by fellow Horned Frog, Bob Schieffer), I heard Mitt Romney add his voice to the chorus of those saying that economic recovery would follow if only we relieved the terrible burden that the government has placed on the nation’s job creators: business. Were taxes and regulations relaxed, this would reduce costs sufficiently to allow firms to do what they are already dying to do, which is expand operations.

But even if we grant the argument that business taxes and regulations are high (which is by no means clear–in fact, it’s easier to make a case for the opposite), this ignores two crucial facts. First, as my friend Mike Norman has pointed out, employees are a cost, usually the most significant one faced by firms (Mike Norman Economics). For that reason, every rational entrepreneur’s goal is to reduce, not increase, the number of workers they have to pay. And quite right. Entrepreneurs have families, too, and they need to feed and clothe them. It would be irresponsible to do otherwise......

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The Real Job Creators: Consumers - Forbes

 

[expat_panama]

...heard Mitt Romney add his voice to the chorus of those saying that economic recovery would follow if only we relieved the terrible burden that the government has placed on the nation’s job creators: business...

...More in link.The Real Job Creators: Consumers - Forbes

--and Obama keeps telling us that he creates jobs, and that congressional legislation creates jobs.

In real life what we know is that when we're looking for work we don't go to a consumer, we don't go to Obama or a piece of legislation, what we do is we fill out an application with a 'business'.

 

[The Rabbi]

Businesses create jobs. Period.
They aren't because of the uncertainty in the economy.
We could send checks to every consumer and it wouldn't help. We know because we've done it before and it failed, both times.

 

[Oddball]