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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Correct.
Ask any small/business owner about hiring additional help. Any honest business owner will tell you that if there is an increased demand for their products, and the economy is stable, they are going to hire regardless of taxes.
Right now the economy is not stable, and growing. Hence not increased demand for product, which means businesses do not need extra help. Do taxes play 'some' roll in it, sure. But they are not the engine that drives commerce/jobs. Demand for company's products and services is.
No business is going to hire someone just because they get a tax break if demand is stagnant or the economy is unstable. Businesses are also not going to expand just because they were given a tax break. They expand if there is increased demand for their products, and an economic forecast showing that demand will be there for the next 12/24/36 months. Plain and simple. Businesses are about making profit and selling their wares. Not about creating jobs for no reason.
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This is ONLY True if the Economy is GOOD and Demand is High.
See sometimes companies hire extra people because it is cheap to do so and can let the other workers not work as hard. After the Crash in 2008, Lots of Companies trimmed the fat, and asked the workers that still had jobs to do double work if you wanted to keep getting a check.
I will take the company I work for UPS. We have had Growth and Record profits for a long time, but the employee numbers keep going down, and employees are asked to do more and more. Many drivers are asking to ONLY work 8 hours that 12 hours a day is killing them. The company saves money by not paying the additional health, taxes, insurance and so on.