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Open Letter to John Carney On the Occasion of Your “Town Hall” Conference Call

Dear Congressman,

I listened to your conference call “town hall meeting” and I was amazed by how many times you mentioned the magical effects that a payroll tax cuts could have on our economy.

As a small business person, I’d like to disabuse you of this notion that payroll tax cuts stimulate hiring.

Unlike you and every member of Congress who is in love with this idea that payroll tax cuts are the most awesome thing in the world, I am someone who pays payroll taxes, and I can assure you that payroll tax cuts are practically invisible to both the employee and the small business employer. The only thing that will stimulate hiring is increased demand. No sane business person is going to hire new employees absent increasing demand for their product or service. I want to like you, but you have been brainwashed and are spouting nonsense. Please stop it.

Consider this, if tax cuts are the job creating machine that you make them out to be, where are all the jobs? Since George W. Bush’s first term we’ve been feed a steady diet of magical tax cuts and look at the employment paradise that the tax cuts have created.

Stick to talking about infrastructure. You mentioned that in passing. But you mentioned infrastructure spending once for every five times you mentioned payroll tax cuts last night.

Flip that ratio around if you want to continue enjoying the support of Delaware’s small business community.

Sincerely,

Jason330

PS. The “Town Hall” Conference Call format is a travesty. Just saying.

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