What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
&gt; so raising taxes on corporate income won’t affect employment<p>&gt; It means that profits are pointless except as a way of announcing to your stockholders (and hostile takeover specialists) that your company is a going concern, a thriving business. You don’t need profits to ‘reinvest’, to finance the expansion of your company’s workforce or output<p>What is he talking about? Higher taxes prevent business owners from hiring more people and from being able to offer decent wage growth. Lower profits de-incentivize companies from taking the risk of starting and running a business and having employees.<p>80% of small businesses had NO employees. Incentivizing these 23M businesses to hire just 1 person would be dramatic.<p>Small businesses accounted for 63.3% of net new jobs from the third quarter of 1992 until the third quarter of 2013. [1]<p>This article acts as if Apple and other mega-corps ARE the economy.<p>Raising taxes is counter intuitive if we want to create more jobs, especially those that will be more rewarding to people.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sba.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;advocacy&#x2F;SB-FAQ-2016_WEB.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sba.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;advocacy&#x2F;SB-FAQ-2016...</a>