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AUCATZ
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Trickle Down Economics
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10/9/2008 9:17:40 AM
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Business creates jobs - small, medium, and large businesses. They aren't all rich folks - the great majority of businesses are small ones. More taxes on business means less money to grow, thus less jobs. I feel for anyone who loses their job (except for the wealthy CEO's who take their golden parachutes and run). However, I don't expect the government to bail me out. If you want to really define why jobs have left the U.S., look at the unions, look at NAFTA and CAFTA. Heck -look at Alex City, and all the other 'textile towns' in the South. Jobs went overseas where the wages are less than $1 a day. Thanks to Democrats and Republicans alike for the legislation that destroyed this industry in the South.
That elderly lady Tallulah mentioned in another thread was right - we need to learn to buy what we can afford, and to not expect handouts. That $1200 'tax rebate' the government gave this year really did a lot of good didn't it? Obama wants to give us one of those again. Will that help anyone who is losing their house? Is it my fault someone bought a $300k house and got snookered into a mortgage where they only paid interest?
I went to work when I was 16 years old. My kids did that too. We were taught to work for what we wanted - to EARN it. Never accepted government handouts and don't intend to. It's a lesson everyone should learn. Help the disabled, help children...provide jobs to those able to work, and demand that they work. That's the American Way.
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