a reason not to eat at applebees

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20. He'll hire more people when.....

He'll hire them when the business volume grows to the point that the present staff can no longer provide good service. He can say anything he wants now, but as business conditions get better and his business increases, he will hire however many people it takes for him to continue to please his customers.

As an offshoot of my logic, I submit that a rational business owner would never say or execute the following plan, in spite of what the GOP says:

"Well......people are having to wait too long for tables and their food, the food is not being consistently prepared properly, our customers in general are not being attentively serviced, and they are grumbling about all of this a lot, but because I do not want to provide health insurance to my employees, I will allow the appalling conditions in my restaurant to continue, and thus cause people to give their business to my competitors instead. I will truly enjoy not paying for health insurance as I watch my business fail. Not paying for health insurance is such a great thing to me that it more than makes up for the failure of my business."

This relates well to the argument over raising taxes on what the GOP says are "job creators". They continue to make the argument that these wealthy job creators will not invest more money in existing businesses, nor invest to create new ones, until they are sure of future tax policy and/or be rid of Obamacare.

That is such bunk! No matter the tax policy at a point in time, if, for example, supermarket checkout and deli lines are getting disturbingly long, the supermarket owner will hire the help necessary to avoid losing business. On the other side of the coin, even if the tax policies in place at a point in time are considered by them to be "ideal", if the public is not spending a lot of money, meaning business stays slow, they will not hire extra help.

If new subdivisions develop and existing ones expand, as they have in the past, and most certainly will in the future, when the population is large enough to support a supermarket, the supermarket company will put a store there, regardless of existing tax policies. The GOP would have us believe that the supermarket owner would instead say:

"Even though the area would profitably support one of my stores, because of the tax policies now in place (or Obamacare), I will not develop the store, thereby forgoing future profits, plus I will allow a competitor to secure the great location I had picked out, which happens to be the last of the area's prime locations, so I will be locked out of that market area forever. However, the pleasures I derive from protesting the current tax policy (or Obamacare) more than make up for the loss of business I will suffer if I decide not to develop the store."

This CEO is downright lying, and is knowingly doing so, in an effort to make a political point. No matter what he says, he doesn't believe that garbage, but he thinks that you and I are so stupid that we would believe total nonsense!