Bob Foster's Blog » tax incentives http://bizmaverickblog.com Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:01:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Forget Tax Incentives! http://bizmaverickblog.com/forget-tax-incentives/ http://bizmaverickblog.com/forget-tax-incentives/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:42:29 +0000 Bob Foster http://bizmaverickblog.com/?p=717 With Congress and the Administration wringing their hands over how big to make tax incentives for small business so they will hire more people; they are—as usual—totally missing the boat. Tax incentives to hire more people will do little to increase jobs. As one small-businessman said in an interview the other night, “Tax incentives are nice and I’ll take them, but they do not encourage me to hire more people. Why would I hire someone that I have no work for and then turn around and lay them off again?”

What is really needed is more work! When small business owners have more work for their workforce, don’t think for a minute that they won’t hire the people they need to do that work—whether there are any tax incentives or not. That’s why they are called “business” owners.

All this haranguing and carping in Washington simply proves even further just how far out of touch with the real world our politicians actually are. Until demand for small business products and services increases, small business owners will NOT hire more people. It’s as simple as that.

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