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
Better get those “shovels” ready!
Does anyone have a list of how they voted?
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 ...
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!
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?
Why would an employer absorb the expenses of an employee for a measly “tax break”?
Republicans are fools, Gregg should be using this as an opportunity to educate people why it is impossible for this to work and why it is a waste of money. The whole idea the Government can create jobs has to be front and center and debunked..
To the economically uneducated it just simply appears that R's are against jobs.
whoop tee doo. Won’t help. Businesses need customers with some money left to spend.
Pi$$ing away our money to hire temps to move the numbers up for a couple of months... few businesses will do this... darn few.
LLS
Some small businessman will get a $3000 tax break for hiring a $50,000/yr employee he doesn’t need!! And Hussein will claim that greedy businesses refused to take advantage of his munificence!!!
With this bill hanging out there no one will be hiring until it passes or is killed. In the end this does the exact opposite of what is intended, instead of encouraging companies to hire; it actually discourages it while it is in the works.
By Eric Cantor
Turn back the clock to January 2009. The administration requested Republican ideas to help spur job creation, and I personally handed the president a plan developed by the House Economic Solutions Group. One of its many features would have boosted incentives for hiring and investment through direct tax relief to cash-strapped small businesses and families. Using the Obama administration's own formulas, it would have created twice the jobs at half the cost of the Democrats' bill.
But President Obama responded coolly to our ideas when we presented them. "I won," he insisted. He forged ahead on legislation crafted in the shadowy back channels of the Capitol by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who used the opportunity to load the bill with pork, increasing funding for her party's government programs of choice. As a result, the $800 billion stimulus failed to garner the bipartisan support that such a massive taxpayer-funded undertaking deserves.
Over 3 million lost jobs later, Americans can only lament the squandered opportunity. Instead of private sector growth, government has expanded rapidly, spending has skyrocketed, but real job growth remains as elusive as bipartisanship. . . .
Just last week, Republican Leader John Boehner and I wrote to Speaker Pelosi requesting an open forum on job growth. Once again, there has been no response.