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Tax cuts aren't even a year old and were sold on the premise of job growth.
Are you claiming that there hasn't been any job growth since January 1?
I'm so glad we passed those corporate tax cuts that created all those jobs and helped provide for all those raises everyone got....
Politically, I agree with you, but your comment is akin to when republicans blast global warming when a snow storm blows in. Pointing to a single data point as a summary of something super complex is always silly.
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Why aren't you asking this of all the comments in this parent? People seem to be blaming Verizon cutting 10,000 jobs on the tax cuts. Or claiming that jobs weren't created. Or that somehow the tax cuts were an economic negative. None of those things can be attributed to causation.
People seem to be blaming Verizon cutting 10,000 jobs on the tax cuts At no point was that ever insinuated. The simple idea is that the tax cuts were sold as a way to give companies financial resources to boost salaries and hire new people. Well they got their tax cuts, why are they doing the opposite of what the tax cuts were supposed to do? Maybe it's because the tax cuts were never going to boost salaries and incr…
Are you serious man? Why be so dishonest? It's clear as day that that's what you were insinuating. Why lie like this?
I'm so glad we passed those corporate tax cuts that created all those jobs and helped provide for all those raises everyone got....
For consumers that would be great and I’m sure other carriers would follow. If they do Comcast will suffer and millions of consumers will have a choice of residential broadband vs. only one player.
Thus I wonder if these job cuts are happening mostly in their wireline business that’s unionized?
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Would you outline how making corp tax to 0 "would be catastrophic in medium-to-long term as the dollar collapses and Americans go through a depression and likely a war"?
Debt default.
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Politically, I agree with you, but your comment is akin to when republicans blast global warming when a snow storm blows in. Pointing to a single data point as a summary of something super complex is always silly.
It's comments like this that keep me coming back to Hacker News. I sometimes find myself in political discussions with people and feel that they aren't playing fair for whatever reason (fair in the sense of good natured truth-seeking). Your counter-example is the perfect, non-snarky retort.
They aren't laying off people, it was a voluntary separation: > Verizon Communications Inc said on Monday that about 10,400 employees will be leaving the U.S. wireless carrier by mid next year as part of the company’s voluntary separation program. They offered a package earlier in the year https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/25/verizon-offers-separation-pl...
It sounds like they were offered that in lieu of a less favorable outcome...Also 3 weeks per year of service is in my experience less than standard.
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Why aren't you asking this of all the comments in this parent? People seem to be blaming Verizon cutting 10,000 jobs on the tax cuts. Or claiming that jobs weren't created. Or that somehow the tax cuts were an economic negative. None of those things can be attributed to causation.
> Why aren't you asking this of all the comments in this parent? I don't need to ask everyone in the thread, polluting the thread. I'm asking why you have made several statements in this thread insinuating the corporate tax cut has benefited the economy, with no evidence. My comment includes citations. Bring data, not feelings or unsubstantiated opinions.
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They understand good god damn well they don't work. This is exactly the plan. Sell people on the idea it'll help them, then these companies take the money and run. What amazes me is some working people will continue to vote this way even though it keeps failing. I guarantee there will be more tax cuts sold in the very near future, and the same people will buy into it. Some people never learn.
> Some people never learn It's hard to learn when your sole source of news is Fox News. It's not even that Fox News is an outlier, the fault is ad supported news media. What do you think will happen when a politician comes along that threatens the million dollar ad accounts from finance and health industries through policies that reduce those institutions influence? Chomsky was right (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…