How is the government really going to spur job creation outside of Rooseveltian-type programs? I don't see why the private sector necessarily would want to create any jobs, given the choice.
You just added a clause that would've been my answer. Rooseveltian type programs are how they'll do it. That, or tax incentives for small businesses hiring.
The biggest concern I always hear from conservatives is that taxing people who make over 200,000K will hurt small businesses, I think that (if it doesn't already exist) that all income that is spent on the income of a person or towards creating a job directly is not taxable income.
I somehow doubt that we'd be so dumb as to tax income that is then sent to another as income, but you never know.
They're not exactly employing people out the door. That's why the only exception I'd really allow on the taxing the rich stuff is if it went directly toward job creation. Ideal? Perhaps not. But if people aren't willing to invest in new jobs, and this is a longstanding problem that may go up to a decade, then shovel-ready jobs are the way to go.
to quote PJ O'Rourke; "The Democrats and the Republicans are like two parents going through a painful divorce who are more interested in making the other look bad than they are in the welfare of their children"
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I somehow doubt that we'd be so dumb as to tax income that is then sent to another as income, but you never know.
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I think the only small businesses taxing the rich is going to hurt are yacht-building companies.
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"The Democrats and the Republicans are like two parents going through a painful divorce who are more interested in making the other look bad than they are in the welfare of their children"
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