The way I see it, conservatives have a choice right now and its pretty clear. President Obama has now presented his jobs plan and his plan to reduce the deficit. Both plans contain items that the GOP has said are needed and will help the economy. The question is...do they pass them? Even just the parts that they support?
Because if they do and the economy improves, the president will do better in next year's election. If the economy gets better, the president will probably win. According to Mitch McConnell, their number one goal is to "make Barack Obama a one term president." I don't think you can both help the economy and make the president a one-termer.
So, I'm putting the question to all my conservative commenters: what would you do? Help the economy by passing even the parts of the plans that you support OR do nothing which will be better for your election chances next year? What matters more to you?
Liberal commenters: please feel free to prognosticate if you so desire.
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>Both plans contain items that the GOP has said are needed and will help the economy.
Could you remind me which parts those are? The GOP doesn't speak for me, and I don't tend to take theater very seriously. (Yes, since theater describes 99.9% of politics, it would be accurate to say that I don't think politics is generally an exercise in seriousness.)
Sorry it has taken me so long to respond to this comment, Hap. I had to go out of town unexpectedly.
Those parts would be the extension of the payroll tax cut and hiring incentives for those firms who hire veterans are at the top of the list. Another item is the payroll tax holiday for those firms who hire workers or increase wages. And the plan calls to improve the SBA loan process by cutting red tape.
The veritable dearth of responses in this post speaks volumes b to the w.
You and your ilk have left many, many discussions with questions on the table over the years on here. Tit for tat.
Gotcha questions aside, I don't think that hiring incentives or temporary payroll tax cuts help the economy long term, so I'm not the GOP you spoke of in your post. If payroll tax cuts help the economy, why are they so temporary in Obamas world...why not just make them permanent? (you don't have to answer that question btw). As I said in a previous dicussion on here, a one time $2000 tax credit isn't going to do much to offset the $50,000 it costs to hire an employee in the eyes of a business owner.
btw, the senate has not voted on the jobs plan yet.
I also reject the idea that government plans help the economy. If only it were that easy.
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