This is an experiment.
First of all, I am trying to cut down the number of words I throw out there, on the grounds that people just don't want to read long stuff, myself included.
Both political parties have been lying through their teeth about the impact of tax cuts on job growth....because there is no correlation. Rather than drilling down into the data to prove this - which I have already done several times here and elsewhere - I am simply going to point out the basic incongruity in our tax system that makes tax cuts contraproductive in terms of economc growth, and vice versa.
Here's the catch: you have to go here to read it....
http://oursalon.ning.com/profiles/blogs/utter-nonsense-how-taxes-really-affect-business-investment
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That's half the answer. There's another half:
When the Government collects more taxes, the Government creates more jobs with that money, which leads to more taxpayers, more taxes, more customers for businesses which expand to respond and in turn still more taxpayers and more taxes.
Both halves add up to the same thing: Higher taxes means the economy does better, not worse.
Start in PM, but I think it will have to happen more openly than that in the long run.
Start in PM, but I think it will have to happen more openly than that in the long run.
I just now got a pm linking me to this post. ENORMOUSLY grateful for what I thought was going to be the chance to read a serious and important discussion of issues that (for a phrase of a long-ago 'workplace' associate) were "driving me lefthanded".
"So what 'm I s'pos'd to do now"? :-(
I don't even know where to FIND your posts, Alan/Sage. See, I'm a 'someone' who has followed your work (to the best of my ability) here on Open Salon partly out of interest in craft and partly because of how much I value your insights and contributions. I've had my own OS problems of late (see subtext poudnkmarte and fricassee). But while we do or don't argue about who posts where: WILL YOU CONTINUE TO POST HERE? That's my question for the moment, because I want to read what you write and -- however much or little I can -- continue to participate in discussions.