How about creativity to reduce expenditures? Ever thought about that?

Or are you one of those people that believes everything the government does is good?

By the way, taxes don't hurt corporations...they hurt the people working for them and the people buying goods and services from them.

You see, corporations are just middlemen for wealth transfers. They don't create money, they get it from customers and transfer it to workers. The profit is used to demonstrate worth and reinvest. If profit goes down the company has to restore it to keep stock values and to keep investments going.

If you can't maintain a certain profit level then its not worth your time, or anyone else for that matter, at doing that job. You go and do something else.

To cover profit decreases the company either raising prices, cuts salaries, reduces workers, eliminates new hires, or reduces dividend payments...or a combination of all of those.

Leo, YOU PAY THE CORPORATE TAX!

Looks like all of Brian's begging hasn't worked yet, better step up the begging and buttkissing now Brian if you want your bailout to save your other companies.

Didn't we read this same article like a week ago?

Brian do you just recycle one "raise tax" or "increase regulation" article each week?

I mean, come on, how many times do I have to repeat the problems with the FDA?

Have you all ever thought about the fact that it is possible to do the same job, complete the same objects, and help the same people, without spending so much to do it?

Ever?

Just once?

And how do you know the state budget hasn't helped drag the economy down?

How do you know budget cuts hurt the people who hurt the most?

Research shows that 80% of wealth transfers go to the rich.

Public schools benefit the rich more than they do the poor.

And regarding welfare payments themselves, we spend enough money to give every family in poverty $50,000 a year. EACH FAMILY, but they are only eligible for $25,000 in benefits.

For every family helped there is $25,000 wasted...

Have any of you ever thought beyond your immediate goals? Looked at secondary and third tier effects? Examined possible loopholes and unintended consequences?

Because, what if every policy you push ends up making the poor worse off, destroying equality and ruining education? What if? Think about it.

ah nothing like exploiting young people to push your own political agenda! :P