Obama came out yesterday with a new and improved offer to the GOP. He wants to reduce the corporate tax to 25% from 39%...for some businesses. This offer is not for all businesses even though Obama admits now (he would not admit this in 2008) that cutting this tax will raise revenue and help businesses create jobs. He wants this only for "manufacturing" firms whereas the others corporations (McDonalds, Google, and Macy's for example) will pay 28%. Why are some jobs or businesses more special than others? You know that small businesses employ the most people in this country? You don't? Well it is true and Obama has not forgotten them. He wants them to pay 40% on their taxes. 40%!!! This is the corporate tax. The owner is probably paying a 39% personal tax rate already.
Lets think about this. If Obama admits what we have known since JFK that cutting the corporate tax rate creates jobs then why not drop the tax rate to 25% for everyone? The U.S. has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world and the highest in a western democracy. Anyone care to explain this disparity? Why would Obama not want jobs created?
This is Obama and like the devil there is a price for his generousity. Obama wants to use the additional revenue (understand, Obama admits that tax cuts create revenue) for more spending. Spending on some more of those shovel ready jobs fixing the infrastructure. Didn't we do this five years ago? What happened to that money? No, Obama wants to spend it on unions and government programs.
So we know that tax cuts create jobs and increases revenue (Obama said so). Why not lower everybody's taxes and create more jobs and revenue? How about some of you intellectuals on the left explain this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/us...deal.html?_r=0
http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjourna....html?page=all
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...96T0F820130730
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...gain-for-jobs/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworst...-tax-revenues/