If Rick could come up with a proposal that would make taxpayers out of the unemployed I’d love to hear it. But please, no more make-work government jobs.

Rick, Rick, Rick…apparently you missed the big picture about what else the GOP offers: They offer themselves to companies like Georgia Power in exchange for dollar-raping ONLY residential payers of Georgia Power electricity.

SEE RANT 1 ABOVE.”

Why? Just because it is difficult to weigh all possible factors and show exactly which set of jobs have been created by a single tax, does not mean tax cuts inherently create or not create jobs. It just means such a thing is likely to overpredict and be a contrived statistic, no matter the side it favors.

Rick, are you really going to argue that increasing taxes on businesses creates jobs? For all the huffing and puffing in this thread, no one has shown any relation with tax cuts and job losses. Whereas it is fairly simple to see how tax cuts gives businesses leeway. You know, those “things” that employ people. You make it difficult for a business to make a profit and they have to fire people, unless the government owns it – then it’s just going to waste your money anyway.

LOL

Keep ‘em honest.

Try that barrel.

THEN STOP TOUTING TAX CUTS AS A WAY TO CREATE JOBS

I support the GOP. Why don’t you?

SEE ABOVE. IT IS ALL THEY OFFER.

Georgia has experienced a storm of corporate downsizing, which would have happened under either party.

SAYS THE REPUBLICAN ‘NOT OUR FAULT’ APOLOGIST.

Imagine what unemployment numbers would be if those jobs were not created.

IMAGINE NO POSSESSIONS. ISN’T HARD TO DO (THESE DAYS).

I don’t think anyone here, or anywhere, is going to be able to point to a certain set of jobs and claim they have been created/saved/ruined by tax cuts.

SEE RANT 1 ABOVE.

Name a state that has had a net decrease in its unemployment rate since January 2005. I don’t think one exists.

NAME A MAJOR EMPLOYER STATE THAT HAS NOT BEEN DOMINATED BY “CONSERVATIVE” TAX CUT GOP POLITICS IN THE LAST 8 YEARS

This is like shooting at foam in a beer barrel.

Buzz, yes the GA cut the budget. We have to cheer that. The problem is that the education leviathan is largely exempt and that is where future cuts must come from.

As for having low/no income tax rates as a business attractant, that really does not bear up to scrutiny, for the states that have no income taxation have sky-high sales taxes on business even on labor that states like Georgia exempt.

Now if Georgia has gutted income tax, sales tax, and property tax as it has done in the last couple of years, this state SHOULD BE “Mecca.” However, to maintain the transportation and education systems SOMEBODY is going to have to ante up and that will either be the citizens through onerous sales tax rates and confiscatory property tax rates or the Florida and Texas models where Business is also taxed at high rates.

The money has to come from SOMEWHERE and one day soon the Feds are going to find out that they cannot print to infinity.

The solution is fixing the credit market and America investing in products that we can export or products that take us off foreign dependency. Unless we focus on this all you are playing is a shell game.

Many provisions of “HB 481 – Jobs, Opportunity, and Business Success Act of 2009″, passed by the senate yesterday, don’t take effect for months or years. Those jobs will come, but it won’t be this afternoon. Companies will see that there are benefits to locating in Georgia, especially in this national anti-wealth-builder economy. If you like what Michigan is doing, by all means, move there.

Companies cannot hire people with money that is taken from them in higher taxes. That money should instead be used to hire people, who will pay payroll and sales taxes, who will be happier due to the ability to support themselves, and who will help businesses increase revenue on which they will be taxed. This is not so difficult to understand–some are just not willing to see the process and are bound and determined to believe that depending on government to cushion everyone from negative circumstances is somehow noble. What is noble is working hard, making a profit, and hiring someone who needs a job.

Technically it’s not again; the first time you just wanted the situation explained.

Georgia Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond claims that the jobs lost are due to the country transitioning to a 21st Century Economy. I will cede to you that the jobs thus far created have not surpassed the jobs lost – but the situation would be more dire if not for tax cuts for businesses. I’m sure you are not going to claim that it would be better to tax companies in this struggling economy, thus preventing them from being able to continue present levels of employment.

I don’t think anyone here, or anywhere, is going to be able to point to a certain set of jobs and claim they have been created/saved/ruined by tax cuts. That is a silly notion. This is a silly tangent. You obviously think that the tax cuts hurt, so what is the alternative? Increase taxes on businesses? I’m sure that won’t affect anyone – you know unless you work for a business or buy goods from a business…..

What do corporate tax breaks have to do with the failure of the housing market in Georgia? Dalton Carpets just shut down two plants this week – why they would respond to the end of the construction boom in that peculiar way? After all the corporate tax breaks, you mean they’re gonna shut down plants and idle workers just ’cause nobody’s buying their products???

In reasonable economic times, corporate tax breaks are an incentive for companies to move here or stay here and employ people. They can’t by themselves guarantee full employment and gang-buster economic activity in the midst of a recession/depression.

Perhaps the Aquarium qualifies as a small business but the others do not. The tax bill passed yesterday will benefit all businesses, not just a select few. It seems to me this bill finally puts the GOP back on the side of small business, not just big business.

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy and it is those people who will lead us out of the recession. Giving them a break is stimulative, much more so than what the Federal government has done.

Additionally, eliminating the corporate income tax will encourage businesses to move to Georgia so long as we remain the lowest taxing State in the region.

If tax cuts don’t create jobs do tax increases?

Indy,

We cut over $2 billion from the budget this year, adding an additional $700 million (assuming that number is correct) to next year’s shortfall will help provide pressure to continue cutting. That’s not a bad thing.

It’s a good thing to be pro-business.

Again I ask: why do you want the Georgia GOP to fail? Aren’t you a patriot? Don’t you love Georgia?