JamesCurran wrote:
Because those who think lowering business taxes so they can hire more workers is a good idea, forget that lowered taxes has ZERO effect on hiring.
Conservatives live in this dream world where business owners say "Golly Gee! I have a few extra bucks this month -- let's hire more workers!"
Obviously, no one actually does that.
In reality, what they say is "Golly Gee! I've way more orders that my employees can handle -- let's hire more workers so we have more product to sell and I can afford to pay those new workers"
So, IF the business owner choose to use the lower taxes to lower his prices, and IF that leads to more sales and IF the increased sales leads to him hiring more workers, then it MIGHT make of up lost tax revenue.
But more likely, the business owner is going to just take the extra cash from the lowered taxes, cut out all that extra work, and just blow it on coke & hookers....
Because those who think lowering business taxes so... (
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