Minimum Wage Verses, Tax Cuts for Business, one has been ongoing the other has been waiting.

02/01/2007

By Bruce H, Scroggins

I see where you have been championing Tax cuts for small businesses and want them tied to the minimum wage increase, I find not strange to hear an devout Republican wanting this combination. Democrats for year, nearly ten years have been trying to get a wage hike for workers across America and for years the major opponent to workers getting a raise has been Republican predominantly.

Lets look at the last 9 plus years, there have been Tax increases and Tax cuts, there has been Ear Marks and the has been Pork Projects, much on both sides of the Isles and you sir have had your share of both.

Since the last two rounds of Tax cut your party rubber stamped into the Tax landscape, which greatly these last two time, benefited the upper end of the American tax payers, was suppose to spur jobs and small business growth, well there has been some jobs alright, but there has been job lost and the ones replacing these lost jobs, has been jobs of lower wages.

I for one have watched, B1 Visa and others, filled the high tech jobs, while Service Industry jobs have come in place of the Manufacturing job, which paid a higher wage, Outsourcing, Downsizing, Off Shoring, Corporate Headquarters moving out of the USA, taking Corporate Welfare with them and jobs, has been a fact of life.

For 9 plus years since the last wage increase, American big and small businesses have had it all there way, the cost of Materials and production goes up, they pass it on to the consumer, Taxes go down, nothing is passed to the worker, the cost of health benefits goes up and the that cost is passed at a rate of 10% plus for the last 6 plus years to the workers, Cost of living goes up, wages have not kept pace, the Feds cut LGA Funds to the State, the State, cuts Funds to the Cities, the State and Cities raise the Cost of services, a stealth tax, for consumers is realized for the workers.

At every turn over the last 9 plus years workers have had no choice, no raise that was for them, but Business has had every advantage, to adjust there bottom line on the backs of the consumer and the workers, labor deserves a raise, just for them.

Now doom and gloom from, mostly Republicans, about having to fire and not hire and telling everyone who will listen, this wage hike will kill jobs, these statements from people who will CHOOSE to retaliate, unless they are given some advantage along with the workers, well sir where were you when you cut taxes for the Businesses, I’ve heard no raise in wages for labor at that time, or for the cost of benefits for workers from you when you voted for these Tax cuts, but now I hear you want business to get a Tax break.

I say, raise the minimum wage and no to tax cuts for business and shame on you being for there, ONLY for businesses, in cutting taxes and not being there as well for workers, you neither cut nor raised anything for workers. It’s time workers got something just for workers, businesses, will have to adjust there bottom line and a little less profit will not hurt them as a stagnated wage has hurt the American worker.