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Originally Posted by GregE
Yeah, but if all the hiring takes place overseas what the fuck good does that do?
The government needs a healthy tax base and if the corporations won't provide one by hiring U.S. citizens, then maybe the government would do well to fill that gap by further taxing those very same corporations.
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It's not a corporations job or responsibility to "provide" jobs. It's a corporations job to make money for itself. Not to make money for the thieving politicians in Washington. Nor to make money for you or me.
The govt. "needs a healthy tax base"?
No, the govt. needs to do what it is supposed to do as framed by the founding fathers. It doesn't need to invade other countries that have not attacked us. It doesn't need to be a welfare "nanny" state. It doesn't need to bail out giant banks and insurance companies and car manufacturers. It doesn't need to spend money on "investigating" steroids in freakin' baseball.
What our govt. "needs" is to get back to reality. Get rid of all these career politicians and send them home.
Stop spending money like it doesn't mean anything.
Create an environment where businesses CAN hire Americans right here at home. And to "create" that...the govt. doesn't really have to do much at all except get out of the way.
And no, I don't mean let shit run wild. I mean stop with all the constant legislation that in the end doesn't do anything but line the pockets of politicians and drives business to open factories in other countries.
All that's really needed is a balanced govt. that doesn't overreach into everything. Yes, regulation is needed to a degree. But they've went way overboard...just like they do in everything the govt. touches. And then it just becomes a giant bureaucracy that never ends.
I moved from South Carolina to Las Vegas in 2008.
But a few years before that....the upstate of South Carolina where I lived got a GIANT economic boost that provided thousands of real high paying jobs.
It was the opening of the BMW plant in Spartanburg, SC
How did that little redneck town get that? The state, county, and city GAVE THEM GIANT TAX BREAKS & REGULATORY BREAKS.
It was incentive for them and they took it.
It literally turned the entire upstate of South Carolina's economy around (the economy was destroyed by the collapsing textiles industry)
THAT is how the govt. can make a difference and bring jobs in.
Yes, BMW could have built that plant in Mexico...but because the local govt. cut their taxes and made it easier for them to build...they brought that money and jobs to Spartanburg.
Now just think if govt. did that for EVERYBODY trying to open a business. We wouldn't have to worry about job growth anymore and our economy would turn around.
But hey...I understand that everyone has a differing opinion. And I respect that you do. I just feel that it is just plain common sense that if you already have corps LEAVING with jobs now, that if you tax them even harder they are going to leave even faster.