Tax Cuts create Jobs;
The Tea Party cares about the Constitution;
And
Corporation are People too.
Those are among some of the Biggest Whoppers around,
that somehow get adopted as common Wisdom, by far too many folks.
Perhaps those folks need to start asking the BS-providers:
"Oh Really? ... Prove it!"
Hirten: Business tax cut may not spark jobs
Survey: 52 percent of small businesses won't add workers
by Mickey Hirten, lansingstatejournal.com -- Mar. 21, 2011
But the link between lower taxes and job creation is shaky at best according to the Small Business Association of Michigan and Business Leaders for Michigan, which represents large corporations.
Fewer than half of small businesses say the tax cuts mean new jobs, according to a Small Business Association survey. About 50 percent say they will use tax cuts to "realize profits."
What? Tax Cuts really Don't Create Jobs!?
Then WHY Do they keep saying that, then?
The Big Lie, as Conservative thinker Andrew Sullivan puts it:
This is the era of the Big Lie, in other words, and it translates into a lot of little lies - "death panels," "out-of-control" spending, "apologies for America" etc. - designed to concoct a false narrative so simple and so familiar it actually succeeded in getting into people's minds in the midst of a brutal recession. And integral to this process have been conservative "intellectuals" who should and do know better, but have long since sacrificed intellectual honesty for the cheap thrills of enabling power-grabs.
The Big Lie, andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 09 Nov 2010
It would almost be funny, if Their Big Lies did not have such profound consequences.
Here's how Progressive thinker Robert Reich, addresses the topic of Republican's Big Lies:
Eric Cantor [...] tells this whopper: “Cutting the federal deficit will create jobs.” It's not true. Cutting the deficit will creates fewer jobs. Less government spending reduces overall demand.
[...]
“Cutting taxes on the rich creates jobs.” Nope. Trickle-down economics has been tried for thirty years and hasn’t worked. After George W. Bush cut taxes on the rich, far fewer jobs were created than after Bill Clinton raised them in the 1990s.
[...]
“Cutting corporate income taxes creates jobs.” Baloney. American corporations don’t need tax cuts. They’re sitting on over $1.5 trillion of cash right now. They won’t invest it in additional capacity or jobs because they don’t see enough customers out there with enough money in their pockets to buy what the additional capacity would produce.
[...]
“Cuts in wages and benefits create jobs.” Congressional Republicans and their state counterparts repeat this lie incessantly. It also lies behind corporate America’s incessant demand for wage and benefit concessions – and corporate and state battles against unions. But it’s dead wrong. Meager wages and benefits are reducing the spending power of tens of millions of American workers, which is prolonging the jobs recession.
The Republican's Big Lies About Jobs (And Why Obama Must Repudiate Them)
Robert Reich, businessinsider.com -- Mar. 22, 2011
Nice Counterpoints, to those Conservative Big Lies, Mr. Reich. Thank you.
Here's a few more Whoppers, for your general consideration ... Do you have your BS-Detectors on?
The Republicans are all about Jobs, Jobs, Jobs;
The Bush Tax Cuts will spur the Economy;
and
The Check's in the Mail;
Just keep checking those Mailbox, folks! ... You too, may be an Instant Millionaire!
The winning Publisher's Sweepstakes entry, is heading to a Mailbox -- somewhere, Near You!
You may have already WON!
Hmmm? ... seems we've heard THAT one too, a few times before, eh?
WHY Do they keep saying that?