Saturday, July 28, 2012

USA! USA! Republican Mike Kelly Receives Standing Ovation after House Speech:

Via MediaiteGOP Congressman Mike Kelly receives chants of USA - USA and a Standing Ovation after his rousing speech:
You want to talk about the thousands and thousands of pages that we put on the backs of job creators? You want to talk about creating jobs in America? when you want to see a nation that doesn’t want to participate but dominate the world market, than let them rise. Take the heavy boot off the throat of America’s jobs creators and let them breath.

2 comments:

labman57 said...

Fiscal conservatives are primarily interested in two outcomes:
1) Increasing the income divide between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of society
2) Increasing profit margins for corporations via lowered taxes and minimized environmental and workplace regulations

Reducing unemployment is a secondary issue -- if said corporations opt to use their increased profits to hire additional employees, that's their prerogative.

Alas, historical evidence overwhelming demonstrates that increased corporate profits do not translate into increased hiring -- increased demand for goods and services does.

And, of course, increased demand requires increased purchasing power by that subset of society which does the majority of the purchasing, i.e., the middle class.

Susan said...

@labman57 - follow your argument to a logical conclusion.

Why would these corporate demons want to deny the middle class better purchasing power if that is what drives their businesses and profits?

I have respect for entrepreneurship and those who have an idea, take risks, and build it into something. People like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mary Kay Ash, Ray Kroc, Dave Thomas, and thousands of less famous businesses that started small but through perseverance, good decision-making, and sometimes a little luck, grew into big businesses or at least survived. This is the heart of what makes America exceptional.

Stop dividing. Fight for a simpler (less deductions and loopholes) tax code for all, flat across all incomes, or some other flat/fair tax that erases the IRS as we know it and removes most of the manipulative politicizing of the tax code.