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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I am a small business owner. When Bush got congress to agree to tax cuts, I received a check for $600. I used the money to help buy a new copy machine in my office. With my old machine I had an employee spending about 15 to 20 hours per week using the copier. With the new machine the time is about 7 hours. I paid the employee $10/hr. With the extra time we trained him to handle some higher value customer service duties. After he proved he could handle the new responsibilities I gave him a $2/hr. raise.
Because of the Bush tax cut that employee is making about $4,000 more per year. I have a more productive employee and I am providing better service to my customers. With better service his job and income is more secure as is mine. Thanks to Bush's tax cut.
If you multiply my experience buy all of the other small business owners who invested tax cuts back into their business, you can clearly see how those cuts were good for the economy, good for working people and good for increasing federal tax revenues.
If you raise taxes my business may not grow, with no growth I cut costs, payroll is my biggest controllable cost, I would have to let people go or cut their hours. I loose, my employees loose, the government looses.
To those who normally don't think this stuff through, including those in Washington, please think about it. try talking to some small business owners. Please understand that small business is the driver of our economy.
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I understand what you are saying Ace.
But the reality is that we cannot afford tax cuts right now..... we are in a war. It is selfish and destructive to demand tax cuts and to keep spending wildly.
I would have no problem if they cut corporate welfare, ended the loopholes for Big Business and the Billionaires to get ATPs, the farm aid and other programs designed for the PEOPLE and not for them to hire expensive lawyers to find ways to get free money.
Here's an example, there is a pretty well known, well paid man in NE Ohio worth probably enough to buy and sell each and everyone of us on this board, who pays lawyers to get all the family farm aid and any benefits the government gives out. The fucking lawyers cost more than he gets from these programs.... his reasoning..... if he abuses the system enough the government will stop giving out the money.... at the very least he believes he gets money that others would just shit away.
This man's daughter is also a client of the company I work for and has severe addiction problems. Wonder why with a fucking ass like that for a dad. And yes, I know the family quite well, been to dinner at their house quite a few times.
But they keep destroying social programs that help, yet, don't even talk about cutting the corporate welfare.
Wonder which costs taxpayers more.... the money we give to help people advance or corporate welfare???????????
Get Bush to cut those programs and leave education, small business loans, FHA loans and GI benefits alone and then I may be ok with tax cuts.
But until the fucking corporate welfare ends...... I don't want to hear about how we need to cut social programs that help, while cutting taxes for the greedy fucks that are collecting corporate welfare also.
I don't see any GOP Neo cons saying corporate welfare is bad..... but they sure as fuck will complain about programs that help people advance.