Comments on: So DO Tax Cuts Create Jobs? http://dirtyhippies.org/2012/10/09/so-do-tax-cuts-create-jobs/ Democracy. Unwashed. Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:36:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Kaleberg http://dirtyhippies.org/2012/10/09/so-do-tax-cuts-create-jobs/#comment-2249 Kaleberg Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:25:51 +0000 http://dirtyhippies.org/?p=2238#comment-2249 I'm glad to see a lot more progressives picking up these straightforward arguments and simple facts. For a long time I felt like a voice crying in the wilderness. Yup, the job creators are ordinary folks with money in their pockets. You can actually take this analysis back further. For example, the boom of the late 1860s and early 1870s was spurred by the high taxes and high government spending in the Civil War. (Studebaker was just one of many long lived companies that got their start supplying the Union army.) The war taxes of 1917 and on drove the Roaring 20s. Sure, there was a lot of innovation going on, but someone needed an excuse to raise wages. In fact, it was the 2-3 order of magnitude increase in manufacturing productivity combined with relatively flat wages that led to teh Great Depression. I’m glad to see a lot more progressives picking up these straightforward arguments and simple facts. For a long time I felt like a voice crying in the wilderness. Yup, the job creators are ordinary folks with money in their pockets.

You can actually take this analysis back further. For example, the boom of the late 1860s and early 1870s was spurred by the high taxes and high government spending in the Civil War. (Studebaker was just one of many long lived companies that got their start supplying the Union army.) The war taxes of 1917 and on drove the Roaring 20s. Sure, there was a lot of innovation going on, but someone needed an excuse to raise wages. In fact, it was the 2-3 order of magnitude increase in manufacturing productivity combined with relatively flat wages that led to teh Great Depression.

]]> By: Avedon http://dirtyhippies.org/2012/10/09/so-do-tax-cuts-create-jobs/#comment-2238 Avedon Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:49:57 +0000 http://dirtyhippies.org/?p=2238#comment-2238 You left out the part where high taxes on the rich mean they have less money to spend buying government and generally bribing it into doing things that hurt job growth. You left out the part where high taxes on the rich mean they have less money to spend buying government and generally bribing it into doing things that hurt job growth.

]]> By: H. Seelye http://dirtyhippies.org/2012/10/09/so-do-tax-cuts-create-jobs/#comment-2035 H. Seelye Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:05:18 +0000 http://dirtyhippies.org/?p=2238#comment-2035 This is a very cogent argument, yet I do not hear (or see) it used by those who oppose the current trend to create austerity -especially in our state institutions, i.e., our schools, state and county services. Why? It is the most amazing thing to watch people advocate and vote for policies against their own self interests! Why? Again, I am puzzled. Why is the lie -even when revealed, so powerful? The answer to this might set us back on a road to governmental and social well being. Great article. This is a very cogent argument, yet I do not hear (or see) it used by those who oppose the current trend to create austerity -especially in our state institutions, i.e., our schools, state and county services.
Why? It is the most amazing thing to watch people advocate and vote for policies against their own self interests! Why? Again, I am puzzled. Why is the lie -even when revealed, so powerful? The answer to this might set us back on a road to governmental and social well being.
Great article.

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