If the Bush Tax Cuts create jobs why has job creation been so slow since their implementation?

[advent]

If the Bush Tax Cuts create jobs why has job creation been so slow since their implementation? Job growth has been higher since their implementation in countries like China and India that have been devouring American jobs ever since. Job creation was much higher during the '90's under Clinton and under elder Bush before his son's multiple tax cuts. Did his tax cuts some how make it easier for businesses to move their assets overseas and thus quickly led to moving jobs and entire factories overseas? Could there be a huge loophole being overlooked in the Bush Tax Cuts that very smart corporate attorneys have found that make it much easier for companies to move jobs and assets overseas to countries with much cheaper salaries, taxes and regulations? If not, wouldn't the Bush Tax Cuts had made a job explosion in America throughout both of his terms and likely into... McCain's possible term (Obama couldn't not run against a good GOP policy)?

[hrafn]

Yet more evidence that the Laffer Curve (Trickle Down Economics) is a theory that has been proven to not work.

GW Bush had the worst private sector job growth numbers over this 8 years since WW2.

[teithi71]

Proof that the Republican economic plan does not work.

[nissim42]

It did help create jobs....just not in the US, something Republicans are very proud of.

[delron72]

Just a little fact you will never hear from a liberal. Under Bush the unemployment rate was down to 4 1/2%. Then it all went down hill when the newly elected Democrat Senate and House took over in 2009.

Gee, I did not know Barney Frank and Chris Dodd were Republicans, you know the guys who said Fanny and Freddy are just fine.

[ayize]

My best guess is that even if we passed a law that made corporations exempt from paying any taxes until January of 2100 they still wouldn't bring the jobs back

[tim]

Simple Obamacare small business is not hiring because they have no idea what this new albatross the democrats came up with will cost them so they are sitting on their hands waiting to see.


Edit...BUSH warned congress about the housing buble and they refused to act "Fannie and Freddie are just fine" barney Franks......the democrats didn't want to rock the voter base vote by actually making people prove they could pay the mortgages they were signing.

[luther]

Most of the money from the Bush tax cuts went to the wealthiest Americans. Some of them have put their money in foreign banks. In any case, the Bush tax cuts have not created jobs.

Bad Republican policies led us to the Great Recession. Our entire financial structure was also adversely affected by those bad policies. The middle class, the driving economic force in our economy, has suffered greatly.

As a result of the severe economic downturn jobs were lost and we are still struggling to recover. The only tangible thing that the Bush tax cuts really accomplished was to increase our federal deficits.

[larry]

The CURRENT TAX RATES haven't created jobs as intended because employers have more to look at than just earnings theft rates. How many new regulations has the federal government imposed on employers in just the last 3 years? How much do these regulations cost employers? Look at how much the Unaffordable Care Act will cost employers. If an employee is going to cost more, why would anyone hire one? If an employee will not be able to produce enough to justify their cost of hiring and wages/(government mandated) benefits, an employer cannot afford to hire them.

[ayize]

Why do you needlessly repeat the same mindless drivel we hear from all the other liberals?

You must have a short memory.

After the 9/11 attacks we had a recession. The tax cuts ended the recession and the Bush years were ones of continuous prosperity. That is until Democrats took over congress in 2006.