Riley:

Why doesn't the average American see through the many falsehoods and half truths put out by the Republicans?

Example: Since business hire people and create the jobs, it stands to reason if you lower the tax rates on business's and make them more profitable, they will hire more people and reduce the unemployment rate? Sounds like a workable solution right, wrong.

Take any kind of business and you will find that they all live or die because they sell a product or service. Let's take a restaurant, they sell food. Does lowering the tax rate on a eating place increase their profit? Yes it does because taxes are part of their overhead. Does lowering their taxes bring anymore customers through the door so they will be more profitable and increase their business so they will hire, no.

You go so wrong so fast! Yes, if you lower taxes (or do not increase taxes) on products that restaurants serve, it can most assuredly stimulate business. If I go to a restaurant where the fare is an average of $50 per person and there are six of us, the tax I face on a ticket can range from 2 to 10% including state and federal taxes (not counting liquor taxes which are all together different). My check without taxes will be about $300. If my taxes are 2% = $6.00, but if my tax total is 10%, then = $30. That kind of tax can drive business away and does not help increase employment; indeed it tends to decrease employment.

You probably haven’t considered this knowing you don’t eat anywhere more expensive than Wendy’s Hamburgers, but even there it begins to add up and causes you to eat at less expensive hamburger stands where your not getting 100% all beef patty, but 70% meat and 30% breading.

Then it begins to effect your decision about how many times a week you dine out. Instead of four times, as you might prefer, you cut to two or even once a week. Do the math, Dumbo!

Do you wake up stupid everyday or is this something that occurs occasionally?