As a business owner/employer for nearly 20 years, I never hired because a tax cut or more profits put more money in the till, but to help service our customers when and as needed. I also lived through at least two cycles of too many folks needing jobs and too few potential employees to fill openings. Neither situation was fun. Varvel’s contention that the tax cuts create more jobs is bull.
What the conservatives consistently ignore is the fact that the economy is booming is due to $1 trillion a year of borrowed money being pumped in. If they cut spending to eliminate the deficit, the economy would drop precipitously due to contractor layoffs, unemployed workers and many thousands of others without an income to spend.
There is no verified correlation between tax cuts and jobs. Most of the tax cut money went to stock repurchases to drive up the company’s stock price and increase executive bonuses. But, why let facts get in the way of your ideology?
Stephen Runnels Premium Member over 5 years ago
Seriously; has Varvel ever mentioned the planet he comes from?
Dtroutma over 5 years ago
That’s pumping acid and cyanide into the ball.
hermit48 over 5 years ago
There better be a ton of them because we each need three to make ends meet. I notice it is lifting off so it must be mostly hot air.
Daeder over 5 years ago
And how many of these jobs will each middle class citizen have to work at once to make ends meet?
jbrobo Premium Member over 5 years ago
Is the hand pumping it up or sucking it out? Only time will tell.
Judge Magney over 5 years ago
Exactly why is overinflating the ball until it’s likely to suddenly burst a good idea?
davidthoms1 over 5 years ago
Stock buy backs create jobs?
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
More lies.
Ontman over 5 years ago
What about the 800,000 people that HAVE jobs but aren’t getting paid?
fusilier over 5 years ago
Like the GM workers in Youngstown, OH?
fusilier
James 2:24
david_42 over 5 years ago
When someone with a CPA doesn’t make enough to buy the median house in an area.
"It's the End of the World!!!" Premium Member over 5 years ago
From NBC News just this morning:
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/more-more-states-are-seeing-job-openings-outnumbering-jobless-n956026
Kip W over 5 years ago
Flubber gas isn’t real, guys.
martens over 5 years ago
Varvel is positing causality without evidence of anything more than correlation (and not all that great correlation either).
readfred over 5 years ago
What happens when the bladder bursts, I wonder. . .Is Varvel secretly a progressive? —Nah!
walkingmancomics over 5 years ago
hasn’t happened; not yet in this present, hasn’t in the past.
DrDon1 over 5 years ago
@MightyMouse — Isn’t there a “prick” in the Oval Office?
brwydave Premium Member over 5 years ago
As a business owner/employer for nearly 20 years, I never hired because a tax cut or more profits put more money in the till, but to help service our customers when and as needed. I also lived through at least two cycles of too many folks needing jobs and too few potential employees to fill openings. Neither situation was fun. Varvel’s contention that the tax cuts create more jobs is bull.
Retired engineer over 5 years ago
What the conservatives consistently ignore is the fact that the economy is booming is due to $1 trillion a year of borrowed money being pumped in. If they cut spending to eliminate the deficit, the economy would drop precipitously due to contractor layoffs, unemployed workers and many thousands of others without an income to spend.
XtopherSD over 5 years ago
Awww… Bless your heart, Varvel.
DeepState over 5 years ago
There is no verified correlation between tax cuts and jobs. Most of the tax cut money went to stock repurchases to drive up the company’s stock price and increase executive bonuses. But, why let facts get in the way of your ideology?
athikers over 5 years ago
Odd how that tax cut hasn’t helped me-course I’m not a corporation or a member of the 1%