Posted on 02/24/2010 8:29:58 AM PST by Stars&StripesNE
The jobs legislation would also extend highway and mass transit programs through the end of the year and pump $20 billion into them in time for the construction season. Economists say the tax breaks could create perhaps 250,000 jobs.
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Is anyone storming his office?
Let the milking of the system begin!
$20B for 250K non-permanent jobs?
this is pure political theater and an attempt to score brownie points for the RATS
Yes, but the union contractors are going to be grinning all the way to the bank.
Agreed....the Government CANNOT create jobs! This incentive is a joke...give businesses TAX CUTS.
Exactly! This not going to fix anything. What a bunch of idiots. They have dug us into a whole so deep, we can't get out.
Better get those “shovels” ready!
Does anyone have a list of how they voted?
Shoveled ready to the curb jobs more like it.
Businesses with brains hire when the business needs new workers, because of demand for their products or services ... Why would you spend $40k to get a few thousand kick back.
The fact that Scott Brown can’t figure that part out is really troubling.
Heck we already knew Collins and Snowe were well, you know ...
Since the vote was 70 to 28, it looks like there’s a lot of offices to storm.
You offer tax cuts to hire people?
So that tax cut will pay for the salary, and other costs of employing someone?
And if that person was even needed to begin with, why the hell would you need a tax cut in order for them to be hired? The business would have long ago done so!
Without following the link due to time constraint, I have to ask, how many firms are going to hire for the tax cuts then lay off because they can’t afford to pay their employees over the long term?
Does not sound right to me.
even if government could create jobs (without destroying another one someplace else), employers are frozen solid until they see what sort of chaos the obama administration creates with health care.
want employment to tick up? declare obamacare dead and buried.
Yeah, he crossed the aisle with the usual NE RINO suspects.
How did the $15 billion bill end up with $20 billion in transportation spending?
The measure passed by a bipartisan 70-28 and now goes back to the House, which passed a far more ambitious version in December.
Here are the Republicans who voted for the measure. How should they be disciplined?
L. Alexander
S. Brown
Burr
Kit Bond
Cochran
Collins
Hatch
Inofe
LeMieux (FL)
Murkowsi
Snowe
Voinovich
Wicker
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