Boeing is constructing its second 787 assembly plant in Charleston South Carolina, a right to work state. Meanwhile, the labor unions here in Seattle are wondering what the fuck hit them across the head. With each new product that Boeing builds, another opportunity lost in Seattle because of the labor unions and oppressive tax environment. Fuck Democrats. Fuck labor unions. Both are outdated organizations of hate.

20% Flat Tax. Problem solved.

We'll NEVER have a flat tax in this country-Look at the armies & armies of people it'd throw outta work if people could figger out & do their own taxes...Plus the congresscritters couldn't use it to reward friends w/"breaks" & smite enemies w/the IRS...

Sandy, as a CPA I can tell you that a flat tax wouldn't put tax preparers out of work. People go to professionals to have them compute their taxable income. It's easy to take that number and compute your tax.

My solution is to eliminate income tax and implement a national sales tax. Tax would be collected and remitted to the Treasury Dept. once a month. Just think of the bureaucracy we could eliminate!

I wonder how the writer of that letter would like paying $85 a pair for dump-bin canvas Keds at her local Wal-Mart. These people NEVER consider that the reason they get crap so cheap is because we can avoid unions and onerous tax regimes.

Steve- THOSE would be the people we CAN'T throw outta work...Screw the entrepreneurs, CPAs, engineers, doctors, etc...But if ONE bureaucrat lost HIS job...Omigawd...Th' WORLD'S coming to an end...

Here in California, we're serious about "green jobs"...which, as a practical matter, means we've closed down plants that actually do anything and forced them to relocate to adjacent states or abroad. Our future economic prospects are based on anticipated growth in the lucrative mocha latte industry.

It has become painfully obvious that governments have no capacity to create jobs, but they sure know how to blow jobs.

You aren't reaching far enough back.

Factories cost money. A lot of money. If you don't have the money you can't build the factory.

But anybody who has enough money to build a factory is rich, and anybody who's rich is a villain. You punish villains by taking their money away. This is how Roosevelt & Co. extended the Depression long enough to get their programs passed. Anybody who came up with enough money to build a factory got all the money taken away, because they were evil rich people.

So the people who build factories developed another way to do it. If you borrow money you aren't rich, you're in debt, right? Taxing debt doesn't even make sense to a Leftoid. So they'd borrow money, build the factory, and pay it back out of the proceeds. This frustrated the Leftoids no end.

Solution? --well, the bankers who loan the money have to be rich, right? After all, they have the money to loan... but it doesn't show up on the books that way. How to tax it?

Simple! Make the bankers make loans to people who never even intended to pay anything back. That diverts the loan money away from the evil people who build factories, and gets justified on the ground that everybody hates bankers, anyway.

Result? Anybody who wants to build a factory has to get the money from outside the country. The people outside the country look at that and say, "Hmm. Why f* with the Americans when we can build the factory here?" -- and they do.

You want jobs, you have to allow people to collect the money to build the factories that need employees -- the technical term is "capital formation". No capital formation, no factories; no factories, no jobs. Simple.

Regards,
Ric

They don't actually KNOW how to destroy them, it's just a side benefit of their lib/prog/soc/ comm policy decisions.

As a citizen of the people's Republic of Ohio, I can tell you our beloved idiot governor is just as much a commie bastard as the Obamanation in the "White" House. Hopefully, we can dump that idiot out on his ass this November, as former Congressman John Kasich is running against him.

While it apparently helps Georgia to have "Red" Ted Strickland as Ohio Governor, a prayer of two for his defeat this November would be appreciated.

Y'all in Ohio need to bring back Howard Metzenbaum...As well as I remember, he was a liberal's liberal...

So, in Austin a lot of tax breaks were given to the Hi-tech.coms and they came in hired a lot of people from all over THE WORLD and not that many from here. Then they get their psuedo IC's psuedo developed, get their IPO for the shadow-box product, that the customers have as much of a hand in debugging, then they move their production lines etc off shore, sell their psuedo IP (and/or their whole damn company) and lay off everyone not living in Asia. Cirrus Logic has had an average of 3 "personnel asset restructurings" per year since 1997. they of course keep their more highly paid moronic management types and move them up thus creating an upside down pyramid. They've moved all of their production lines and testing offshore where the Chinese and Malaysians can benefit from, and copy (I mean steal) the IP, so they can make their own and cut out the stupid Americans. AMD hasn't made any of their own stuff here in the US in nearly ten years. They still get their tax breaks because the corporate offices are still here but they don't really employ many actual Americans. Tax breaks won't work. They merely make it cheaper for the rat-bastard (thanks Denny) executives. The same jackasses who sold somebody a projected bill o' goods (I mea IP) that is only on paper; toilet paper.

Hyundai, new in Alabama, at first employed mostly execs and engineers from Korea (where most of the money went) with minimal american employment. In my experience (and I could be wrong but don't count on it) Koreans don't trust black americans as a rule and guess what the largest part of the population in suhhhthern Alabamy consists of. You don't have to be a racist to figger that one out. Being a Dumbocrat helps. The support businesses were delivery companies (UPS et al already in place) a railway system (been there for decades), and storage facilities (not much of an employee base there). That leaves the cleaning crew and security guards.
Most high falutin' business folks are not dumbocrats and know a good thing when they see it; and these tacks brakes are made for them.

I'm climbing down off my soap box now...my nose is starting to bleed.