JFK agrees. Raising Taxes Doesn't Add Revenue

I didn't say the rich don't create jobs... I suggested, and the data show, that the top 2% create less than 20% of the jobs... Stop creating words I didn't say.

I know, in LJ's prefect world, all new jobs would come from the goverment. Like Stalinist Russia.

Again, that's not what I said... But enjoy your fantasy....

LadyJazzer wrote: Stop creating words I didn't say.

They won't, anymore than they will stop creating "liberals" who don't really exist except as cardboard cut outs in their minds, complete with a set of extreme beliefs they can ridicule without having to actually engage with real people and their actual ideas and words.

LadyJazzer wrote: I didn't say the rich don't create jobs... I suggested, and the data show, that the top 2% create less than 20% of the jobs... Stop creating words I didn't say.

You said the percentage is 'so small' as to how many jobs they create. So 20% of the jobs created is 'small' to you? So if there are approximately 120 million people working, that means acording to your numbers here, the top 2% created 24 million jobs. THAT is a small number? How many jobs did the bottom 50% create? So if they cut down even by 10%, you are saying that it is nothing to have another 2.4 million unemployed? Interesting logic.

Since Viking likes his charts, here is one to consider:

Something the Dog Said wrote: Since Viking likes his charts, here is one to consider:

Proved my point. Congress writes the bills for spending cuts and tax increases. Under Reagan, the Dems contolled both houses. Look what they went for. Very few spending cuts. Under Clinton and Bush most of the time the Republicans had total control of both houses or at least one house a few of those years. They were able to stop the out of control spending. And you are posting Obama's 'proposed' cuts for 2011. Who is proposing them? The Republicans. I notice that you skipped 2009-2010 when the Dems controlled all 3 houses and spending was more than the other 3 combined! So a Republican controlled congress will cut spending and our debt way more than the Dems ever have!

You are right. I love charts!

I absolutely love how you can look at facts and see only Republican goodness.

The issue isn't how much spending is cut or how high taxes are raised- the issue is what spending is cut, which taxes are raised. You guys fall into this partisan infighting and abandon all critical thinking.

SS109 wrote: The rich don't create jobs? How true! I have only ever been give a job by the poor. They are hiring every day.

There is only rich and poor? What about the middle class? I think they probably start most of the new start up in small business and hire quite a few people.