Trying to close Planned Parenthood doesn't count as a jobs bill. The nutjobs would do that for free.

let me guess; this is about the GOP's current "reaffirm 'in god we trust' as our national motto" bill because it would employ dozens of sign painters and engravers?

/DRTFA

*reads article*
*facepalm*

Tax cuts don't create jobs. As much as you desperately want them to, they don't.

Oh yes, a tax cut. Aren't we still running a deficit?

TAX CUTS for the job creators!!

tax cuts? really?

well, the bush tax cuts were in place for ten years, during which NOT A SINGLE NET JOB WAS CREATED.

on the other hand, direct government spending - something the GOP virulently opposes unless it's off-the-books and spent on bombing brown people - actually does create jobs.

but tax cuts have to work sometime, right???

FlashHarry: tax cuts? really?

but tax cuts have to work sometime, right???

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!

FlashHarry: tax cuts? really?

well, the bush tax cuts were in place for ten years, during which NOT A SINGLE NET JOB WAS CREATED.

on the other hand, direct government spending - something the GOP virulently opposes unless it's off-the-books and spent on bombing brown people - actually does create jobs.

but tax cuts have to work sometime, right???


/pledge it so!
//put it in Park, number 1

I knew without looking that it would be about more tax cuts.

/the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

Because "uncertainty."

What the Laffer Curve actually tells us is that there *is* a point at which lowering taxes will increase revenue. We are not even remotely close to that point on the curve right now, and we haven't been for over 40 years. Anyone claiming that tax cuts are a viable solution to our current dilemma is either misinformed or a liar.

"The House overwhelmingly approved a measure to eliminate a much-maligned rule requiring government agencies to withhold 3 percent of payments to government contractors."


Putting money in the pockets of government contractors and calling it a 'jobs bill' is anti-American.

I'm just going to go ahead and guess without clicking the link that NRO is still pretending that tax cuts create jobs despite the fact that Obama has cut taxes more than Bush did over his entire term.

Well look at that.

BigTuna: What the Laffer Curve actually tells us is that there *is* a point at which lowering taxes will increase revenue.

A point which is likely constantly shifting, on a minute-by-minute basis.

Relevant.

kronicfeld: BigTuna: What the Laffer Curve actually tells us is that there *is* a point at which lowering taxes will increase revenue.

A point which is likely constantly shifting, on a minute-by-minute basis.

And requires taxes somewhere above 70% according to any independent study.

kronicfeld: BigTuna: What the Laffer Curve actually tells us is that there *is* a point at which lowering taxes will increase revenue.

A point which is likely constantly shifting, on a minute-by-minute basis.

I am constantly amazed by the people who think that the Laffer Curve is some profound insight.

Yes, if you increase taxes to 100%, revenue will drop to zero so there must, logically, come a point where increasing taxes is detrimental.

That part's sound. What's unsound is the way that conservatives interpret that to mean that lowering taxes is always a good idea because if 100% is bad then 50% is better, 25% is better still, and 0% is the VERY BEST OF ALL!

It's called a curve for a reason. Either side of the slope will decrease revenue, so the sensible thing would be to find the optimal point on the curve to set taxes. But that would require some kind of sound economic analysis that might occasionally say that you should increase the tax rate, and you can't have that!

In all fairness, more tax cuts for the rich will create jobs... or rather Jobs, as demand for that particular book of the Bible will skyrocket amongst the newly poor.

Silais: dilbert.com

also relevant, from Blackadder Goes Forth:

Melchett: Field Marshal Haig has formulated a brilliant new tactical plan to ensure final victory in the field.

Blackadder: Ah. Would this brilliant plan involve us climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy?

Captain Darling: How could you possibly know that, Blackadder? It's classified information!

Blackadder: It's the same plan that we used last time and the seventeen times before that.

Melchett: Exactly! And that is what is so brilliant about it! It will catch the watchful Hun totally off guard! Doing precisely what we've done eighteen times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time! There is, however, one small problem.

Blackadder: That everyone always gets slaughtered in the first ten seconds.

FlashHarry: tax cuts? really?

well, the bush tax cuts were in place for ten years, during which NOT A SINGLE NET JOB WAS CREATED.

on the other hand, direct government spending - something the GOP virulently opposes unless it's off-the-books and spent on bombing brown people - actually does create jobs.

but tax cuts have to work sometime, right???

It's like they don't understand the definition of the word futility or something.

NFA: "The House overwhelmingly approved a measure to eliminate a much-maligned rule requiring government agencies to withhold 3 percent of payments to government contractors."


Putting money in the pockets of government contractors and calling it a 'jobs bill' is anti-American.

Okay, so Congress can agree that we should give Halliburton more money. I'm sure there wasn't any debate over that one.

Passing one tiny part of a jobs bill, and one that does next to nothing in creating jobs, isn't passing a jobs bill.

Obama's "do-nothing Republican Congress" message is hitting home, which is why the GOP drones are writing drivel like this.

BigTuna: What the Laffer Curve actually tells us is that there *is* a point at which lowering taxes will increase revenue. We are not even remotely close to that point on the curve right now, and we haven't been for over 40 years. Anyone claiming that tax cuts are a viable solution to our current dilemma is either misinformed or a liar.

Well the only ones that matter now are members of congress and I think you just described 90% of them.
So we are pretty much farked.