Nick Hanauer - Job Creator Myth

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Originally Posted by firstdown

In both cases they are the business and without them there would not be a business. I know the friend with 89 employees takes a bunch of money every year and puts it back into his business so he has capital to grow and hire new employees. We are really picking at things to prove a point. All of us, the rich, middle class, and the poor creat jobs in one way or the other and its time we quit playing the class card against one another. I'll agree that the rich probaly would not be rich without the spending of the middle class and the poor but on the same hand alot of the poor and middle class would not have jobs without the rich creating them. Last time I checked we all depend on one another in some shape or form.

Well, I think we are talking about two different things. You are talking about stuff that really is "small business" related. I don't think people have a problem with small businesses. I think it has more to do with the big corporations. Should the Walton family continue to rake in billions or help raise the quality of life for their employees, which in turn would also enable them to spend more (gasp even at walmart).

You are arguing semantics. His claim about rich not creating jobs isn't to be taking literal that not a single job was created. It's talking about the big picture of things, the over all job market. It's been proven that giving rich people more money doesn't help out the economy in any shape form or fashion. The numbers and graphs prove that. In fact, the economy has always done better when the rich were taxed heavily.

Also, we can't stop playing the class card because there is definitely a class warfare. Rich are trying to get richer and keep their power hold on the government. The poor and middle class are scrapping to stay alive. Eventually one of two things will happen. The rich will win and the public will riot and revolt. The rich will be put back into line and things will balance back out. The pure fact remains that we can't continue down this course we are going.


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