[ex-snook]

“easier taxes would keep those companies in the states along with their capital to reinvest and thus more jobs.”

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Somebody has to connect the dots on how a lower tax would create jobs. We now have the lowest tax rate in 50 years and the highest unemployment. GE, paying zero taxes, is still exporting jobs. Obama said 8% unemployment. He was wrong. What % does the flat taxers say by the first midterm? ‘Jobs will be created in the long run’ is just political rhetoric.

[Raider Sam]

Well, we do have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, including the socialist countries in Europe. To some degree, that has an effect of companies leaving the country, or trimming down their scope. That is one of the positives in Cain’s plans, reducing the corporate tax. Im not sure what Perry’s proposal does to the corporate tax, but any way to lower it would be beneficial.