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Old 12-22-2005, 10:38 AM   #17 (permalink)
Poppinjay
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The problem with the consumption tax, is that industry is fearful that people will not consume. What they seem to forget, is that we have less money either way. It’s so much easier to quash an idea than adjust for the good of the economy.

I’m all for the consumption tax if it were to truly be meted in a fair manner. It’ll never happen, but I’m for it. I would also be for realistic corporate taxes and policies that reward them for keeping people employed. I worked for a couple of years as part time/temp employee in a professional industry that required professional training and a great deal of talent. The people I worked for employed me as a part time/temp, because the more people they had in that classification the less tax burden they had to pay. That just shouldn’t be. During my time there, we had great success, a good deal of which I had a piece of the responsibility. But as a result of their desire to defer tax, I used up all my hours two months before the end of the year. So I sat idle as the employer “enjoyed” an end of the year slump with depleted workstaff who couldn’t get the shows on the air. The thing that really rankled me was that they got a tax break for having so many PT/temp employees. It was the republican version of helping us out – by under-employing us.

But like consumption tax, asking corporations to get real with their policies will never happen.
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