What obligation do the “wealthy” have to produce jobs – if they are provided tax breaks?
of course – “Rich” means ‘mulitnational corporations, mega-wealthy, hedge-funded, multi-millionaires, and Big Oil, Pharma, Insurance, Banksters – et al…
So – I see many people in Y!A saying droning mantras such as “I never got a job from a poor man”
when actually – isn’t the “customer” the one who pays all the employees?
So wouldn’t you want the working class to GROW in prosperity so they would spend their money with your business? Why would you want to take away their benefits, there medical insurance, their pensions? These all add to individual security – which adds to consumer confidence.
Okay – back to the question – What OBLIGATION do the “rich” have to create jobs – if they are given tax breaks?
J M – bingo!
Paulina/o TY you – if only folks like “peace thru blinding force” could see it this way -
Peace- I’m asking who owns the rich? wtf? why flip into that question? they own themselves don’t they? they want to stay in power – who wouldn’t? I happen to be of the opinion that FAIR regulatins makes a country work better – ie: pre-Reagan trickle-down for instance.
None.
If they felt any obligation at all, they would do it now, with the estimated 4 Trill that is sitting on the sidelines.
Business people are smart. They are not going to hire people until they have demand.
They will not have demand until they have customers.
The will not have customers as long as the middle class keeps disappearing.
The way to increase demand is to raise incomes and lower taxes on the middle class.
Henry Ford knew this over 100 years ago.
http://www.huntinvest.com/mutual-funds/More-than-3-Trillion-Waiting-on-the-Sidelines-to-buy-stocks-13183-.htm
none at all.
a star for you.
The prospect of even bigger profits, what did you think one they reached a few hundred million they just go “okay I’m good, I’m not gonna work anymore”
Thats something poor people fantasize about but the reality is that even though the rich have more money than they can spend in their entire lives they have a passion for what they do which drives them to make even bigger profits.
Tax breaks do not create jobs. If they did, we wouldn’t have so much unemployment. There are a lot of huge corporations, like GE, that did not pay a penny of tax on their 14 billion in profits.
Bush pushed his tax cut through on the notion that it would create jobs. It didn’t, and unemployment increased until the 2008 meltdown.
The problem is not tax rates, it is the tax loopholes that only the very rich can take advantage of.
That depends on who you claim OWNS the “rich.”
Of course in literally every case where any Democrat ever mentioned the “Rich” with respect to tax policy, it ALWAYS means “everyone who makes enough to pay taxes.”
Why do you imply the the working class can GROW as a result of REDUCING the sum total of capital that can potentially flow their way? Why DO all Democrats ACTUALLY FIGHT to take away their benefits, there medical insurance, their pensions and replace them with COMPULSORY government programs that cost them MORE while they delay and reduce their benefits?
Okay – back to the question – Who do YOU claim OWNS “the rich?”
They will only have jobs here when the US stops the tax breaks for outsourcing.
McDonalds is hiring!!!! I love the Chrysler ad – Imported from Detroit!!!
There is hope that pride in the US worker is coming back into style.
The rich have no obligation to create jobs and they seldom create jobs. Most new jobs are created by small business. The fact is that large corporations more often kill jobs by combining and restructuring. It is new business that create most new jobs. The Bush administrations apathy toward the Small Business Administration is one of the reasons he finished his first term without a net increase in jobs for the first time in history and finished his eight year stint with the lowest number of new jobs in history (in eight years the Bush administration saw less than one third the number of new jobs the Carter administration saw in just four years.) Big corporations do not have an obligation to create jobs and with the tax breaks they have been given, they do not have an incentive to create jobs.
They are under no obligation to create jobs. They create jobs when hiring someone wouId benefit their company.
Creating artificial and unfair incentives is called socialism, not freedom.
Well appareantly tax cuts rely on the rich making a promise they’ll be upstanding, moral American-citizens & create jobs
But when you see the general demand of the economy “Increase dividends, no matter what” you realise it isn’t the 1950′s anymore