Of course you have no idea what I'm talking about. You've never ran a business let alone collect a pay check.
But businesses are in the business of MAKING MONEY. They aren't charities.
IF you raise taxes on them, they have to offset that cost somewhere to stay competitive.
Let's make it REAL simple.
Say I make shoes. And animal rights wackos have convinced the president that leather is evil and so he raises the taxes on leather production to keep those evil people from selling the leather from cows and pigs that are going to get eaten anyway.
So, that means *I* as a shoe manufacturer have to now pay a higher price for my leather to make my shoes. Which means I have to either raise the price for my shoes, or let go some people and try to get along with less people, or I do both.
Now let's say it's a tax ON ALL BUSINESS.
There is a tax on me, a tax on the leather I have to buy for my shoes, a tax on the shoe laces I have to buy for my shoes. A tax on the metal eyelets I need for the shoe laces, a tax on the strong thread I need to sew shoes together. A tax on the rubber I need for the soles. On and On.
That means MY PRODUCTION COSTS ARE GOING TO GO WAY UP! It's going to go UP for everyone.
That MEANS I HAVE to raise my prices, and downsize (lay off people) to keep in business. I have no choice.
So NOT only do you pay those taxes IN higher prices, BUT in lost jobs.
WHICH is why manufacturers MOVE OVERSEAS! To AVOID THOSE HIGH OVERHEADS.
THEN you IDIOTS who hang on and believe every word your class envy Democrats tell you, BLAME REPUBLICANS for outsourcing and manufacturers moving overseas, when THEY KNOW FULL WELL, THEY DID IT!
And how do we know they know? Simple! Look at the pacs that take money from foreign manufacturers, er as long as it's "American workers" donating. Yeah right!
So NOT only do YOU end up paying higher taxes, YOU END UP WITH HIGHER PRICES, LESS JOBS AND LESS OPPORTUNITIES and businesses are forced to move overseas.
And unlike the RICH DEMOCRATS that preach higher taxes, because THEY KNOW they can put THEIR MONEY in tax shelters, YOU don't have the opportunities to put YOUR meager savings in tax shelters. YOU JUST HAVE TO EAT IT!
The 70s taught us this, and it's teaching us this right now before taxes even go up!



