Monroe News-Star
Kevin A Unter, Asst. Prof. of Political Science – UL-Monroe
February 14, 2010
“The snow in D.C. has done more for preventing the government from doing anything than the Republicans have. Well, that and the Democrats can’t agree among themselves… We’re seeing them do it with health care and now we’re seeing them do it on the ‘jobs bill’ that really isn’t a bill but more of an idea. It started out as an $80 billion deal, and now it’s already down to $15 billion of new government spending.
And it won’t even do what the Democrats say it will. Take the signature component — giving tax breaks to business owners to hire new employees. According to the AP last week: ‘As for the bill’s effectiveness, tax experts and business leaders said companies are unlikely to hire workers just to receive a tax break. Before businesses start hiring, they need increased demand for their products, more work for their employees and more revenue to pay those workers.’
Now if you’re a business (of any size) owner, you read that and think ‘duh.’ But if you’re President Obama, you’re reading that off the teleprompter and thinking ‘huh?’ because he and the rest of his elitist, egomaniacal sycophants in the White House have never run anything. It’s typical Democrat thinking: ‘We’ll just take money from some people and give to others with directions to do something they wouldn’t ordinarily do.’…
You can see their incompetence in their failures — the stimulus, health care, anti-terrorism and homeland security, and now their ‘jobs’ bill…
All of these new policies the Democrats want require new taxes, although The One will continually tell you that he won’t raise taxes ‘one dime’ on people making less than $250,000 per year. Unless you count the expiration this year of the tax cuts passed by President Bush including those on personal income, dividends, and capital gains — you know, the stuff that we want to encourage more of: earnings and investments. He’s even going to let the tax credits expire for little things like the $250 teacher tax credit for classroom supplies and the $4,000 deduction for college tuition and expenses.
Looks like a lot of dimes to me, Mr. President.”