Why does this go forever unchallenged? Truly, what’s the real deal breakdown on these wealthy people who supposedly create all these jobs for us plain folk? I need a job, where’s my wealthy job creator, I need an address.
How many of these nameless wealthy people needing tax breaks inherited their wealth, never worked for it, never actually built a company with employees, just had it transferred to them at the reading? Maybe changed brokers; the end.
How many of these oh so vital job creators don’t even get their income from any kind of tangible business source at all but live, very well thank you, off of stock piled dollars, money making money? Making money off of money in and of itself does not create jobs but it does grow personal wealth. One does not invest in order to create jobs, one invests to net a return, the gain or loss of jobs is irrelevant. Not illegal but not job creation either, and certainly not noble.
Seriously, how many of these so called job creators have sought out and invested in start-ups that do employ people but are both risky and often don’t pay out anything for years if at all? And even when these investments are made, how many are initially calculated as losses to offset tax liabilities?
If republicans are going to constantly refer to wealthy people as the job creators then these wealthy people need to be thrown into a spreadsheet . . . . break it down for us plain folk, slap a pie chart on it, show us the money, where it came from, where it went and who got a god damn job out of it.
And the progressives and the media need to quit letting this job creators propaganda slide by day after day unchallenged, demanding no proof. Where’s the fact checking? The legitimacy of the job creators argument is paramount in the tax/budget debate being shoveled at the electorate.
Footnote:
How many years has Romney benefited from capital gains tax breaks?
When was the last year Romney started a company that created jobs?
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14 Jul“Peace in the Middle East”, as it’s called, could be had but we’d have to stop funding the occupation. We’d have to give up the scripted delusion that an occupation is in our best interest regardless of the Wall Street/K Street hype. Then we’d have to redirect all that big time “aid” money into actual aid, not just an annual wad to be gifted to the current whomever to be spent at their discretion. If we had a financial stake in Palestinian held territories, hospitals/clinics that we funded and helped build, roads, desalinization plants, comprehensive irrigation systems, seed banks, solar and wind farms, housing, etc. we sure as hell wouldn’t want anyone blowing them up. You can bet the American tax payers would lose their collective mind over blown up tax dollars; i.e. you see how we’ve protected our colossal investment to date in the area with an “Iron Dome”. This change, this positive use of aid money turned into construction, instead of destruction, would also be a huge help to the unemployment crisis in the Palestinian territories. You know, all those young able bodied men with no jobs but lots of rocks and plenty of time to throw them. As a bonus these projects would reduce the hatred coming our way from the folks in Palestine and their many watchful neighbors. Any such reduction in hate is an upgrade in our national security. You want to get rid of Hamas, try building something with the Palestinians; improve people’s lives. This is not a new concept; this is sound foreign policy. Yes there would be problems overcoming Palestinian skepticism; “you reap what you sew”, we’d have to work hard to dismantle the reputation we’ve built but we’ve taken on difficult challenges before. The hardest element is shedding a false premise, like WMDs, and replacing it with positive action. And who knows, if the Palestinians come to like us just a little bit maybe we could begin to work on that misogyny thing they’ve got going on.
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