Originally Posted by howardzinn

This is BS imo. The US already has low taxes, lower than most OECD countries. The thing that republicans have trouble understanding is that trickle down doesn't work and cutting taxes doesn't always bring about more employment.

Neoliberalism gave us cheap TVs and iPods but it has destroyed manufacturing. That's not coming back, high levels of long term unemployment are here to stay.

Corporations won't save the USA, helping small businesses is much more beneficial because they do employ locally and won't be sending their workforce to China or setting up their tax base in Ireland.