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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
Well its not entirely unfounded though. Lower taxes can and do attract new businesses which it turn will help with unemployment. If you're going to set up a new factory for your company do you set it up in a place where taxes are so high you already have one foot in the grave before you make your first dollar or do you find a place that gives you the lowest taxes?
Taxes are needed and people bitch way to much about how high they are but being pragmatic about what your charging people and why should be part of any discussion when trying to deal with unemployment.
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There's is some fact to that but there's also a lot of smoke being blown around -
Oil begs don't raise our taxes
If we could just get rid of the tax shelters and actually tax businesses and the wealthy instead of giving far too many of them hand outs, get rid of a shit load of pork and cut some military spending we might be on the road to balancing our books.
But as Bush Jr once said in a speech "you can't raise taxes on the rich, we all know what they do they find loopholes and won't pay anyway." Not a direct quote but it's close. Guess it never dawned on his cheering admires that it might make more sense to close the loopholes then ignore them.