Can someone explain how the bush tax cut extensions will create jobs, when we have had them for

[still_one]

several years and the job market has gotten worse not better

[October]

1. kick!

[stray cat]

2. The 1000 dollars to most of us from not paying in to SS?

[bvar22]

9. The next step in the destruction of Social Security...

..traded away for maybe a handful of jobs.

The Working Class can't stand too many "victories" like this one.


We WON!!!
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!

[Nite Owl]

3. Stop questioning

we are supposed to just 'believe'.
When the GOP says it we are supposed to gripe and point out the facts but not so much now. Shhhh

[Goldstein1984]

4. The "recovery" is a house of cards

They know tax cuts won't create jobs. They're afraid that any negative vibe will precipitate the inevitable--the collapse of an economy being held together by blind faith in lies.

[Quantess]

5. Rhetorical question.

Everyone with an IQ above room temperature should be able to share your reasoning.
But I guess it can't be stated too often. :)

[DenverDad]

6. I think that even the people espousing that the tax-cut

will create jobs probably don't actually believe it. There is just too much empirical evidence to the contrary. This is just the talking-point that congressional Republicans put in order for the hate-talkers to convince their sheeple to support ANOTHER policy not in their best interest.

[soryang]

11. It's not just empirical evidence, progressive tax rates stimulate

...the economy. That is the whole principle behind progressive taxation on wealthier incomes. Tax credits and deductions for business investment have virtually no stimulative impact if they are not accompanied by increases in tax rates on the capital investing class. Investment tax credits reduce higher marginal rates of taxation. The principle behind it is called, "Use it or lose it." Without substantially increased rates of progressive taxation at higher incomes, the downward spiral in employment and manufacturing will continue. The wealthy will just continue to hoard and speculate with the hedge funds and wall street hucksters.

[Autumn]

7. I believe many jobs were created, but they were secretly

only given to republicans. That is why there are no unemployed republicans.







:sarcasm:

[dennis4868]

8. here are some good links that answer your question....

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/12/cap_tax_cut_deal_could_create.html

http://www.startribune.com/business/111472509.html

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/just-how-stimulating-is-the-new-tax-cut-jobless-benefit-deal/?ref=business

www.politico.com/static/PPM191_taxjobs.html

[Spike from MN]

10. That's easy.

Millions of jobs were created by the tax cut but they were all lost because of the Wall Street bailout. Well, at least that's what a Fox Snooze viewer at my health club told me. And I know he's right because he also said unemployment under Reagan was 3%. :rofl: Uh, it averaged 7.5% and peaked at 10.8% but I couldn't convince him of that. I guess come people just can't handle the truth.

With idiots like him making all of $20,000/year (if that) and going against their own interests by advocating for tax cuts for the rich, it's no wonder this country is where it's at.

[DCKit]

12. As if it's our fault you fail at magical thinking.

Get with the program.

[Parker CA]

13. They won't. It's another heaping load of BS, but this is DU and we all know this. nt

[DeSwiss]

14. I could.....

...but before I finished, we'd both probably be insane as a result. First however, you need to know that economics is a Latin derivative for the word "equina-feces." Also called horseshit. :sarcasm:

Basically though, all you need to know is that the fractional banking system operating through the fictional institution called "The Federal Reserve Bank" -- and upon which this whole economic house of cards rests, is the same thing as making money from thin air. In fact that's exactly how they do it!!!

It's really just so many pixels on someone's computer screen. It's all virtual. Abstract Ideals. You know, like Obama's "Hope & Change" memes.

- And that's how jobs are created from trickling (AKA - getting pissed upon): MAGIC!