I’m totally sick of hearing the term “job creators” tossed around by the right. You know who the real job creator is? A person with a paycheck.
A person with a paycheck can buy things. When they buy things, other folks have jobs providing those things. Those then become more people with paychecks, and then they can be job creators, too.
I’m not just making this up. This is actually what Adam Smith thought about job creation. Jobs are created by people who can pay for things. And in general, the more people who can create jobs, the more jobs.
So the folks the right calls “job creators”, what are they really? Well, the newly rich (the ones who didn’t inherit their wealth, which is actually half of the richest folks) make their money by responding to the job creators, and organizing the response. They don’t create jobs, they manage the jobs that are created. They get wealthy by taking a bit off the top of each job created. But they don’t create the jobs.
(One can argue that people who invent markets actually do create jobs. If you come up with something people didn’t know they wanted, the resulting jobs would not be ones that job creators would normally have spawned. But this just changes which jobs are created; without the new market, the money would have been spent creating jobs in the existing markets.)
So actually we should all be in favor of tax breaks for the job creators. Once we can get the right to stop lying about who they are.