I never met a tax cut that created a job

Is it that they are really this stupid in Congress, or is that they think we are? No, he said it, and this is why the Democrats will never get it. Maybe it’s because most of them are lawyers. Maybe none of them ever took a class in economics. Maybe … I’ve run out of explanations, but surely this one single bite explains why, as Glenn Reynolds always says sarcastically “The country is in the best of hands.”

It starts with Democrat Congressman Gene Green explaining why the stimulus hasn’t worked yet. That explanation alone is reason enough not to give them our money. It takes time for the government to spend money, he says. True … but it lasts an eternity.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiqhgRWETNY

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

9 Comments

  1. Dimsdale on July 6, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    Dear God! So he actually believes that tax increases create jobs?!?!

    Only government jobs, which parasitize private sector jobs. Well, a parasite that kills the host is an unsuccessful parasite indeed.



  2. Jeff S on July 6, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    It's amazing how these people get re-elected every other year.



    • skepticalcynic on July 9, 2009 at 8:22 am

      Not really Jeff

      As long as the right to vote is given to someone simply by location of birth, politicians who promise to GIVE something to a group of people will ALWAYS be elected. People vote for who they THINK will improve their quality of life. And that goes for both democrat and republican voters.



  3. Steve McGough on July 7, 2009 at 5:48 am

    Laughable. He has just stated the private sector on its own is unable to create new jobs. He shows his stripes and firmly thinks the federal government is the only group that can spend money "appropriately" to "create" jobs. Who could agree with this?



  4. Lazybum on July 8, 2009 at 1:23 am

    We are screwed.



  5. Dimsdale on July 8, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    Come to think of it, I never met a Democrat that created a job (unless it was some unnecessary, overpaid hack job for one of his kids…).



    • skepticalcynic on July 9, 2009 at 8:24 am

      I live in a town WAAAAY over my head. It BY FAR votes dem, local, national, whatever. Many, many of them have started their own company and created many, many jobs.

      Now for the life of me I can't figure out HOW



  6. skepticalcynic on July 9, 2009 at 8:27 am

    Sorry, can't type for bean, either.

    As I was saying, I can't figure out WHY a small biz owner would EVER vote dem. It makes no sense, but they do. People have told me guilt, but I'm not buying. But I'm open to possiblities.



  7. ryalso on July 9, 2009 at 9:52 am

    This federal mindstink along with our local public sector attitude is exactly why I'm going Gault and GTFOOH. Closing up shop (two of them), liquidating the properties and heading SOTB. Been suckered for too long. See Ya.



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