Never has a post been simpler or more correct. Readers and posters on this blog are much better informed and would love to find someone who can disagree and make a case for any other solution.

I would combine #1 and #2 into one item to demonstrate that you can't have one without the other. Otherwise we just get another Bush.

Imagine how many jobs we would have created in Indiana had we repealed property tax and replaced it with a TRANSPARENT and FAIR form of taxation? That's what tax activists suggested in 2007. Legislators even laid out a plan to elminate homestead property tax.

Instead, we got higher taxes and more lost jobs. That means less income to pay the higher taxes.

And the caps? That's just another political trick so they can keep taxing our property.

We should have voted in Ron Paul as President. He is one of few people who actually practices what he preaches and lives by this very economic credo. Ron Paul is so popular now, he was on 5 different programs yesterday: CSPAN, FOX, MSNBC, CNBC, & Bloomberg. I am a life-long Republican and am a big fan of Ron Paul and will no longer support Mitt Romney or John McCain or these other jokes we have in office now. I would also love to see Mayor Ballard go, Carl Brizzi resign, and Tom Johns get raped by a goat for being a total asshole and embarrassment to our city. Also, let's get rid of Dickhead Lugar who votes for LOST treaties and will not support SB 604. That's my take, but who cares what I think cause I'm anonymous pulling off someone else's internet and using a proxy to hide myself cause I know Abdul is in bed with most of these losers I listed above (with exception to Ron Paul).

I find it ironic, Abdul, that the president you support is diametrically opposed to all of these proven solutions.

Government is too big to succeed.

Maybe someone smarter can answer this simple question for me.

A business has a trinket it sells.
There is a demand for 100 trinkets at $50.00
It requires 2 full time employees to make.
Taxes are 40%
Cost are $25.00 ( includes everything direct and indirects)

Revenue – $5000.00
Pre tax profit of $2500.00

Taxes paid – 40% of $2500.00 = $1000.00

Net profit for business – $1500.00

If you lower the taxes to 30% = $750.00

Total profit for business rises to $1750.00

Please tell me what that does for job creation and demand?

While I understand everyone want to pay less taxes. I do also, but I am not convinced that higher taxes stiffles job creation. Nor does lowering taxes by the will automatically kick off nation wide job creation.

People always scream about smaller government, but only if they cut the government money that supports someone elses job. Soon as you start cutting something they care about then it is a different story.

We all know the majority of the government spending is with the military. Talk about cutting that then people scream that you are unpatriotic. To me it is still government spending.

While I would like more jobs to be created, haven't we already seen that cutting taxes doesn't really stimulate job creation at all.

Now my example might be flawed and you are more than welcome to blow holes in my reasoning. Until now I haven't heard any reasoning to make me change my mind.

I would be intrigued as a follow up Abdul as to exactly what kind of jobs will be created? The biggest job creater in Indiana over the last few years based on that philosoply is Wal Mart. Now I am not taking a shot at Wal Mart it's just as TA said we don't make or build anything anymore. In the past manufacturing has always brought us out of a recession. The dollar loses value our products become cheaper and exports go up, employment goes up, profits go up. But now we are just stuck thanks to NAFTA and CAFTA……so it's going to take more work then just lip service.

Good deliniation on the need for both tax cuts and trading policies to be even-handed. However, I'd go a step further and suggest don't implement tax cuts until we lessen the debt/deficit, and to provide perceived equilibrium for the spending cuts that have to come.
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There's never been a better time to “buy American” either, if you'd like the other guy to buy YOUR goods and services.

The state cuts have moved on to higher education. The reality that lies ahead may cure our notion of those God-given flat screens.

Jerry, here's a reality check:

I did find a niche and create something. In 1979-82. That job went overseas to $.50/hr. workers. I retrained.

The “new thing” I made lasted until 1987. Same outcome. I retrained. Got another master's and entered business for myself. Still at it.

All around me the folks who use my services, are seeing hours cut, jobs eliminated and incomes decreased. And in almost every single case, the grief is a direct result of shipping jobs overseas. It's not just manufacturing–Hell we don't even answer our own phones any more–there are call centers in India to handle AT&T's calls for God's sake. And Comcast. And GE. And…well, you get the point.

I never minded trading with foreign nations. I expect job protection to be a major foundation for any trade relationship. But as with most government actions, the free traders, initially led by Reagan but now backed by nearly every political faction in the nation, have let the pendulum swing so far out of whack, that the fix is decades away.

We'd better get used to being a fractured economy. It isn't going to get better soon. Those who dined at the Trickle Down table are now getting dumped on. I will give George Herbert Walker Bush credit for this–he initially called it Voodoo Economics.

And as someone who came from a New England patrician background, he was flat-out right. Then he wanted power, so he swallowed his pride and honor, and became VP for 8 years.

And so it went, and so it goes…

It's not quaint. It's the way it was when I was a child.

Every 50s-plus generation in history arrives at the same conclusion: we need to “return to our roots” somehow.

I'd part paths with you, Taxpayer, reagrding this president and his goals. The vogue economic policy since 1980 has been a lopsided benefit-gain equation. You simply cannot do the following things concurrently and expect the economy to respond favorably:

1. Cut domestic spending 20%
2. Increase Pentagon spending likewise.
3. Cut taxes across-the-board; then whack out capital gains, too.

The above philosophy panders to the far right; it is, as GHWB said, Voodoo Economics. I favor most of the above components, but when Reagan did them at the same time, the economy tanked within 18 months. Harken back to the 1982 elections…which was, for the record, the last time Dick Lugar got a serious challenge.

The sad fact is, too many neocons survived the Reagan years, and infiltrated think tanks, government, biz, and the rest of the real world. The Rummys, Cheneys, Wolfowitzes and their ilk cannot be faulted for honestly believing their economic theories worked.

The crashing relaity is–it didn't work, and still doesn't. In our household budgets, when we face difficulty, the smart ones among us cut spending as quickly as possible. We make choices. Government has sterner obligations and commitments, but it too can start to make those choices, which cross party and ideological lines.

We can help ourselves best by pitching in as Taxpayer advocates. We can also insist that government–at all levels–do what our governor is doing now: severe cuts. Without that slap of reality, we're further lulled into complacency.

And the problem with complacency is, when it lingers around for more than a year or so, it seeps into workaday life. What was out of bounds two years ago, spending-wise, is now “sacred cow.”

Universities got the real news Thursday. I hope the governor told them: cut spending 6%, and get ready for more, and don't you dare make it all up by tuition increases.

Now, if only the Pentagon got that news. And higher ed everywhere. And multiple other sacred cows that need slaughtered.

Hey, I can hope, can't I?

How does cutting business taxes spur job creation and demand?

Two main ways –
One – more people are willing to take a chance and start their own business if they think they can make good money doing so. Why take a risk and try working for yourself if the only one that makes money is the government?

Second – if a company has more profits, that means it also has more money to expand. Maybe your fictional company can try making a second type of trinket. Or maybe it can see if it can open a second store to sell the same trinket in a new location. It all comes down to the cliche – “It takes money to make money”. Of course any new employees hired because of the expansion will now have money that they will want to spend at other businesses.

There is no guarantee that business owners would choose to expand if their profits went up. It is possible they could simply pocket the difference. If that happens, they will either save the money or spend it. If they spend it – they are increasing the demand for other companies. If they save it – that is money available for banks to loan to others (at least in theory – in today's economy banks have been reluctant to loan out money).

I am one of the people that is absolutely against cutting military spending while we have men and women in harms way. If you can find areas to cut that do not affect soldiers in combat – maybe. But only if there was no chance the military would have to shift funding in such a way that it does affect soldiers in the field.

Not a problem for me Jerry I am doing very well thank you. I am pointing out factual issues vs hyperboyle….and your point is?

TA – another way to look at things is how much worse they would have been without the tax cuts.

Also, considering the economic consequences of cheap exports, there is a whole discussion we could have on this topic; but …

Someone buying a $499 50-inch flat screen might not have bought one at all at $1099. So, somewhere, some store employees, wholesalers, shipping folks, etc… made some kind of money.

And for those who would have spent $1099 on one, they now have $600 more to spend in the economy on other things. Even if they blow it on Starbucks coffee somewhere, it generates additional economic activity.

We absolutely need to make more things in America; but, until we get massive restructuring of the tax codes, get our currency stable, cut red tape and government intervention in the economy it is going to be difficult. We currently sport the 2nd highest corporate tax rates in the developed world (corporations don't pay taxes, you know, they just collect them from ordinary people in the prices of what they sell).

America is no longer so far ahead of everyone else that we can succeed 'despite ourselves' … we must be competitive in the market for factories and labor.

BUT, the politics of tax cuts needs to end as well. Sure, a 10% cut on somebody making $30,000 a year is only $3,000 when a 1% cut on somebody making $500,000 a year is $5,000 but that doesn't make it fair to call the cuts “for the rich” as often happens. And, besides, that $5,000 a rich person saves is used to either (1) create economic activity directly, (2) invest in companies that hope to grow and create jobs or (3) is saved in a bank which provides funds that can be lent to start up businesses or to people who are buying a house or a car [also known as "spending by other means"].

There also has to be an acknowledgement that government can't provide everything to everybody. In fact, it is often quite harmful when it tries to do this [great example is how medical care costs more than twice as much as it should due to government intervention in the marketplace, which causes people to call for government to fix the problem it created and it will then try to do so and make things even worse]. Or how about the dept of Energy and their $20+ billion a year budget and 11,000 employees – all working, supposedly, to get us off of foreign oil since the Carter administration. At what point do we say “FAIL” and try a different approach?

Keep in mind that NAFTA and CAFTA are not “free trade” agreements, they are “managed trade” agreements where governments have not agreed to free and open trade and markets but to pick winners and losers.

It's also worth noting that free trade in the correct sense is difficult to work when you are not competitive from a tax or labor perspective. Another example of where politicians get in the middle of what should be a free market economy and try and tinker with it in ways that create distortions and uncompetitive biases. None are so omniscient that they can centrally direct economic activity and it is sheer arrogance to presume one (person or group) can.

JHC you would put any comment on this website to generate hits. Pathetic.

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