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Re: Cleaning out the lockers. for good.
Author: theconductor
Date: 01-06-2020 - 07:22
UNP 104 Wrote:
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> Its time to give it up,no one said raising taxes
> would create jobs. No one likes taxes. Keith was
> arguing that small businesses and jobs were being
> lost because of the liberals in California were
> over taxing and over regulating. Since you could
> not figure it out, I was pointing out that the
> corporations had gotten a tax break by the
> conservatives and were still laying off people.
> And you then proceeded to agree with me that the
> reason for railroad layoffs is not taxes and over
> regulation by liberals. Although, I don't think
> it is all Union Pacific like you suggest. It is
> the whole industry. Please tell me which major
> corporations in any field have been hiring,
> besides token hiring, because of the tax breaks.
> A couple of articles came out this week saying
> that most of the savings from the tax cuts went
> into stock buy backs and other benefits for the
> corporations and their brass, but had not been
> used to help growth like it had been argued it
> would be. The super rich and corporations will
> always be here protected by their friends on both
> sides.
It was nice of Keith to toss in some quotes from such great sources as EPI and minimumwage.com to go with his usual off the shelf, dime store rhetoric from whichever Make America White Again echo chamber he's a part of this week.
Kudos to his denial of the well documented party swap of the civil rights era too. One really has to try hard to attempt to absolve themselves of their racist tendencies these days.
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> Its time to give it up,no one said raising taxes
> would create jobs. No one likes taxes. Keith was
> arguing that small businesses and jobs were being
> lost because of the liberals in California were
> over taxing and over regulating. Since you could
> not figure it out, I was pointing out that the
> corporations had gotten a tax break by the
> conservatives and were still laying off people.
> And you then proceeded to agree with me that the
> reason for railroad layoffs is not taxes and over
> regulation by liberals. Although, I don't think
> it is all Union Pacific like you suggest. It is
> the whole industry. Please tell me which major
> corporations in any field have been hiring,
> besides token hiring, because of the tax breaks.
> A couple of articles came out this week saying
> that most of the savings from the tax cuts went
> into stock buy backs and other benefits for the
> corporations and their brass, but had not been
> used to help growth like it had been argued it
> would be. The super rich and corporations will
> always be here protected by their friends on both
> sides.
It was nice of Keith to toss in some quotes from such great sources as EPI and minimumwage.com to go with his usual off the shelf, dime store rhetoric from whichever Make America White Again echo chamber he's a part of this week.
Kudos to his denial of the well documented party swap of the civil rights era too. One really has to try hard to attempt to absolve themselves of their racist tendencies these days.
