unions killing jobs...

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Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

Do you think those jobs are all overseas now? No shot that many (and I mean many) of those jobs are simply gone due to smaller business going under due to excessive taxes and the utter collapse of the housing industry.

There is no "Excessive Taxes". What rates are you specifically referring to? I'm small businessman, and I know what my tax rates have been over the past 20 years, and they are down, with special breaks over the past 3 years.

Whining that the tax rate is 35% is ridiculous - nobody pays that. The biggest multinationals don't pay crap, and keep their profits overseas.

What "small businesses collapses" send jobs overseas? Restaurants, cleaners, plumbers, groceries don't send jobs overseas. Small businesess run on local cash infusion from local residents. Local residents get that from paychecks. The big manufacturing companies are gone multinational. Towns are closed down and empty. The GOP won't renew unemployment benefits. They should, immediately, that's cash direct into small business pockets in a local community.

We need aggressive stimulus with direct job creation.

Waiting and hoping for multinationals to get their wet dream of removal of all labor regulations so jobs in the USA would be as cheap as sweatshops in foreign countries is absurd. Not gonna happen. Those jobs are not coming back. No matter how hard the Republicans are trying to do exactly that.