Quote:...  wow...  Just wow...  Sometimes I don't know what to say to you.  

 

Have you not noticed that there has been job growth for a while now...  I think I heard its been 72 straight months of job growth...  You're gonna need to back track and clarify this statement.

 

As for the taxes issue, there are many factors that help push an economy.  Taxes definatley are a factor.  But as I think Eric and some of the other posters recognize, it's not the primary driver of job creation and job destruction.  

 

Again, it's been proven that the tax cuts we've seen and kept since W. Bush have not gone to creating more jobs.  The savings on taxes have by these huge corporations and the all time high profits that they are experiencing are going to pay off the stock holders, and to buy back common shares.

 

1.) Stock holders include every person with a 401k or IRA in this country.  Also any union members that have retirement/pension plans.  

 

2.) I never said that it was the sole driver.  I said that it creates an environment for the most efficient compounding of growth.  

 

3.) We have one of the lowest labor force participation rates on record.  The number of people waking up to go earn a paycheck is slightly down over the course of the administration.  Ironically enough, the leading states in job creation over that time are right to work states with no state income tax.  GEE I WONDER WHY?  And this is on the heels of the president spending and borrowing more money than any president in history.  This is after a trillion dollar stimulus package.  This is after taking over 1/6th of the economy.  This is after hundreds of billions of dollars going to Solyndra and it's twin sisters.  All you have for me is this WASHINGTONIAN talking point "360k people left the labor force this week, but 100k people went to work at burger king.  That's prosperity?

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