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I am not an economy expert by any means. I am not even a college grad. But what is happening today just doesn’t make sense to me. You give the wealthy a tax cut and it is going to trickle down to the rest of us? Why would it? How is this going to bring back jobs that we have lost? I have heard the wealthy being called the Job Creators. Really? What jobs? Does how much a person makes in the stock market really create jobs? Now I would agree we need healthy corporations to maintain the jobs that we have but how does giving more money to the rich bring up the lower and middle classes? 

Now for the longest time I have always thought that the key to growth would be putting more money into more people’s hands. Which is better, one person having the money to buy a new refrigerator or one hundred people buying a new refrigerator? I would think to have growth you would need to have people with money buying your product. I really do not think that cutting taxes for the rich really put money into the pockets of the poor. I think in a lot of the cases the money was saved made the rich richer but did nothing for the middle and lower classes.  Letting the money trickle up to the rich would be a much better solution. The money would still wind up with the rich in the end but it would think that it would pass through many hands on the way up.

There is something to be said for raising wages. When Henry Ford raised the wages to 5 dollars a day in 1914 that was a lot of money, about 120 dollars a day if converted into today’s money. People will tell you that Henry Ford did that so his workers could actually buy the cars they were producing. Now, that was a bi-product of that decision but what he wanted was a stable and productive work force. That was really the start of the middle class that we have today. So let’s talk about 15 dollars an hour, that would come out to 120 dollars a day. Would it have the same affect that Ford’s decision did back then? A lot of people would argue the pros and cons on that one. I would think putting money into the everyday worker’s hands would increase productivity, spending, growth, and also generate more taxable income that would help lower the debt. Seem s logical to me but I am sure a lot of people will have a real problem with that. 

 

 

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