Republican strategy: Tax cuts, credits to create ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’
by Michael C. Bender | March 2nd, 2010With Florida suffering from its highest unemployment in three decades, pumping life into the state’s dismal job market is at the top of almost every lawmaker’s to-do list this year.
“It’s been an economic tsunami,” Gov. Charlie Crist said of the collapsing housing market and spiraling unemployment that has slashed Florida’s tax collections by 17 percent since he took office three years ago.
Crist, like his fellow Republicans in charge of the state Senate and House, will largely look to tax cuts and incentives to spark job creation as the legislature begins its annual spring session Tuesday day.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 9:21 am
Sure, give us tax cuts so we can pass on the extra money to pay for gas and insurance. Get real! If you want to help anyone in this or any economy address speculators, the oil industry, insurance industry, and big pharma, cut spending, stop spending, stop sending jobs overseas, and finally stop working for special interest and work for the middle class and the poor. Until then, your words are worthless and you will be voted out.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:56 am
Tax cuts? In this economy? If the Republican party wants to be relevant again, nationally, they need to start addressing the real problems, and leave their decades old rhetoric behind.
Tax cuts? Tax cuts are one of the reasons we are where we are, financially, in the first place. You cannot continue to tax the hard working middle class, while giving tax breaks to the top 1% and corporations, and expect to balance the budget, or see economic growth.
Get real, or sit back and watch this country continue on its path toward a third world country, with the few at the top living egregiously lavish lifestyles, while the working poor start new careers robbing banks and becoming squatters.