New Study Shows That U.S. Job Creators Are The Biggest Taxed In The World
March 21, 2008 by Joe
Earlier I wrote about Senator George Voinovich of my home state of Ohio and how at a speech the other day he all but called out for raising taxes. I don’t know if Se. Voinovich has been really looking around the State which we both call home, because if he did he would notice that job providers are packing up and leaving at an alarmingly high rate.
Now comes news that a study, which really did not need to be commissioned because anybody with half a brain could figure it out, shows that U.S. job providers are the highest taxed bunch in the entire world.
WASHINGTON, Mar 18, 2008 - A new study from the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan tax research group in Washington, shows that most American states tax job providers at a higher rate than any other country in the developed world.
“This is startling news for America’s businesses and workers,” said Tax Foundation president Scott Hodge, the study’s author. “Tax competition for jobs and investment is fierce, and the U.S. continues to fall further and further behind. Our states should be the world’s leaders in many things, but high taxation should not be one of them. The high federal corporate tax rate is literally crushing states’ competitive abilities. That means fewer jobs for American workers.”
Counting the federal rate alone, the U.S. has the world’s highest corporate tax rate, but including average sub-national rates (federal plus state in the U.S.), Japan edges out the U.S. for the highest-tax location (see table).
This new study breaks the tax down state-by-state, adding each state’s corporate tax rate to the federal corporate tax rate. The results show that 24 states impose, when combined with the federal rate, a higher business tax rate than in any other nation. In fact:
- 24 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than top-ranked Japan.
- 32 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than third-ranked Germany.
- 46 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than fourth-ranked Canada.
- All 50 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than fifth-ranked France.
Yet people still wonder why U.S. companies are folding shop and sending jobs outside the country. Because the people who provide these jobs are being taxed at ridiculous levels and they are only going to get worse if Hillary or Obama get into the White House and alongside a Democrat controlled congress raise taxes even more to pay for all the government programs they are proposing.
Even Canada does not place as high of a tax burden on job providers as what is placed here in Canada. In 2003 Ireland set their corporate tax rate to 12.5% which is a whole 22 percentage points lower then the lowest taxed U.S. State and almost 30 percentage points lower then the highest taxed U.S. State. The economy in Ireland is booming and that country has seen unprecedented growth in the past few years.
Ireland adopted its 12.5 percent corporate tax rate on January 1, 2003. “When Ireland introduced its rate, the government looked at making it effective for 25 years,” Reck said. However, this would likely have generated some controversy with Ireland’s relationship with its European Union member countries. Reck spoke during a webcast hosted by Deloitte Touche, LLP.
Combined with lower levels of government spending, the tax changes have jump-started an economic miracle in Ireland: once one of the poorer countries in Western Europe, it now boasts the highest per capita GDP on the continent. Moreover, the influx of young educated professionals looking to take part in the Irish resurgence has also made the country’s population one of the youngest in the Western world.
Reck said there are no proposals in Ireland now to change the 12.5 percent rate. “At a political level, there is a consensus that it will remain unchanged for the near future.”
Reck explained that Ireland’s 12.5 percent corporate tax rate has benefited a variety of taxpayers and has led to high job growth. Manufacturing, especially in the pharmaceutical sector, has been attracted to Ireland because of its lower corporate tax rate.
The solutions to our economic woes, which I still don’t believe are as bad as the media is telling us they are, are quite simple. 1) lower the tax burden on job providers,2) lower the tax burden on everyone else, 3) end earmarks and 4) cut wasteful government spending in programs the Federal Government has no business being involved in such as Welfare, the Arts, Urban Development, and a whole host of others.
The more people continue to cry and moan that Corporations make to much and rich people are not taxed enough, the more and more taxes are going to go even higher and job providers are going to leave even faster and then the economy is really going to go to shit.
Patrick at Born Again Redneck has more on this.
Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Looking Into Prosecuting For Thoughtcrimes
March 21, 2008 by Joe
Now while I am not a big fan of Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos,” and as a matter-of-fact think that it is a juvenile tactic that Democrats do have the right to criticize — but not that much because it is crossover Democrats and moderates that helped propel McCain to the nomination — I think what the Democrat controlled Cuyahoga County Board of Elections is doing is absolutely ridiculous.
This comes via my local bird cage liner, the Plain Dealer:
The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections has launched an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against voters who maliciously switched parties for the March 4 presidential primary.
Elections workers will look for evidence that voters lied when they signed affidavits pledging allegiance to their new party. And at least one board member, Sandy McNair, a Democrat, wants the county prosecutor to review the findings.
But it remained unclear Wednesday whether the four-member board will agree to pursue prosecution. A 2-2 vote would mean that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, would have to break the tie.
The investigation comes 10 days after The Plain Dealer reported that more than 16,000 Cuyahoga County Republicans changed parties before voting March 4.
While once again, even though Democrats have screwed with the Republican Party’s nominating process in helping to get McCain nominated — that is no reason for Republicans to get them back, by doing the same thing — its juvenile and the type of tactic that we should leave the Democrats to use.
But to attempt to prosecute Republicans for declaring themselves as Democrats, just to vote for Hillary — irregardless of the fact if they had malicious intent in doing so is down right asinine, and a huge waste of tax payer money.
How come you never hear Democrats wanting to prosecute illegal aliens who have voted or to look into all the mysterious dead people who always seem to be voting — oh wait that’s right because even though those groups may have malicious intention in mind when committing voter fraud, it’s okay because that malicious intent is directed at Republicans.
With Republicans Like These, Who Needs Democrats?
March 20, 2008 by Joe
More and more each week the former mayor of my hometown, former Governor of my home State and current Senior Senator from my home State, George Voinovich gives me reason to dislike him. This week while speaking before a regional planning forum in Columbus, the Senator pretty much called out for increasing the already high tax burden on the American people.
“We’re going to have to raise more money in this country. Did you hear me? We’re going to have to increase taxes in order to do the job,” Sen. Voinovich said. “Anyone that tells you that’s not the case isn’t being truthful with you. They’re not being intellectually honest with you.”
And Republicans wonder why they are losing elections and Conservatives are turning their backs on them. Seriously where have all the true Conservatives in the Republican party gone? You know the people who know wholeheartedly that the only way to achieve true economic growth — is not by the government taking more of our money, but by reducing its size and taking less of it.
Hat Tip to Matt Naugle at Naugblog
My Two Cents on Obama, his Pastor and other stuff
March 20, 2008 by Joe
I have been avoiding the blogosphere for the past few weeks, I have not been posting anything of late here on my own blog, nor have I been visiting any of the blogs that I enjoy reading. It is not that I have been busy with other matters that are consuming my time, while that is true to an extent — I have just simply so upset over the past few weeks that I have been drained of any desire to post my two cents on political subject matter any more.
I have been really upset that we will not have the all-around excellent Conservative candidate running for the Presidency, nor will we even be having a true Conservative running for that matter and that has upset me a lot. What upsets me even more is that there are a vast number of so-called Conservatives out there who are so upset at John McCain winning the Republican Party’s nomination that they are choosing to either sit at home or do the infinitely stupider idea’s of writing in another name or choosing “none of the above.”
Now I am not a huge fan of John McCain’s politics and have had great issue with many of the things he has done in the past, and am not what you would call a John McCain supporter. All you have to do is type in his name into the search bar of this blog and see many of the anti-McCain postings that I have made. With that being said however, come this November, I will be voting for John McCain and I will be doing so for a number of reasons, with the main reason being simply that — I am not an Idiot.
I will much rather have John McCain and many of his Democrat-light views masked as Republicanism in the White House then Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama and their socialist views masked as Progressive Democratic politics.
I just feel that if you are a true, principled Conservative — that you would not knowingly enable Hillary Clinton or more then likely Barack Obama, becoming the Commander-in-Chief. But, I’ve already written about all that and if you want you can go ahead and read it here.
What finally brought me out of my blogging hiatus today is something that I wrote about back in January and that the mainstream media is only picking up on now. Barack Obama and his membership in a Church that preaches extreme socialist ideology and his unwavering support of that Church’s pastor — a man who preaches hate against America, and has done so for all twenty years that Barack Obama has been a member of his congregation.
The recently retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has called the United States a country that is run by the Ku Klux Klan. He has made the claims that it is the government whom sells drugs to blacks and causes the problems of drug abuse and crime amongst the black community. During his first post September 11th sermon, he blamed America for the attack and all but implied that we got what we deserved. He has made all of these racist, hate-filled claims and many more like them from the pulpit of all places.
If this is the type of man that Barack Obama spends twenty years listening to from a Church pew, if this is the type of man whom Barack Obama allows to perform his marriage ceremony and to baptize his Children. If this is the type of man who Barack Obama calls a very close and personal friend and spiritual advisor, if this is the type of man whom gave Barack the inspiration for the title of and some of the content of one of his books. If this is the type of man Barack Obama surrounds himself with to give him advice — we as Americans need to ask ourselves one simple question. What type of people will Barack Obama surround himself if he gets to work out of the Oval Office?
Think about that all you crybaby so-called Conservatives who are going to write in another candidate other then McCain or vote “none of the above.”
Friday Night Videos: Snowblind
March 7, 2008 by Joe
I really wish Al Gore’s global warming would become actual truth and get here already, I’m sick of this snow. We’re in the middle of a blizzard here in Cleveland, so here’s some Snowblind.
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Super Tuesday 2008 Part 2: The Electric Boogaloo
March 4, 2008 by Joe
Well it is Super Tuesday 2008: part 2, I will be finally getting the chance to vote in my State’s primary election today — unfortunately since Fred Thompson and later Mitt Romney have dropped out of the race I am left with the choice of the populist preacher, the GOP’s very own version of Jimmy Carter or the Democrat’s favorite Republican, John McCain.
Rush thinks that people left in my position should vote for Hillary. Sorry, its not going to happen, the only way I would vote for a Democrat is if I actually wanted that Democrat to become our next President. I understand Rush’s reasoning, the more chaos in the Democratic nominating process, and the longer this drags out — the better for the GOP, especially since it looks like McCain has run out of money until at least September.
Like it or not McCain is the GOP’s nomination no matter what the Huckster says or does and despite the fact that I disagree with the Arizona Senator on a whole host of issues, I know that while he is no Conservative and is barely a Republican he would be an far, far better Commander-in-Chief then either Hillary or Obama, thus he will have my vote in November.
I just haven’t decided yet if he’ll have my vote today.
I originally supported Fred Thompson, as a matter of fact he is the first candidate who ever inspired me enough to donate money to his campaign, seeing as even though he has technically dropped out of the race though has failed to formalize his withdrawal by sending a written notice to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office — a write in vote for Fred Thompson will still count as a vote for Fred Thompson.
I won’t be an idiot like some so-called Conservatives and write in another candidate come the General election in November, I’ll hold my nose and vote McCain then because I am a Conservative and Conservative principles simply will not let me sit by and actively help put an extreme left leaning democrat in the White House.
As far as Rush’s point about creating chaos in the Democratic party, I don’t think that they need Republicans to play any shenanigans to do that — despite the fact that it seems all-but-certain that Barrack Hussein Obama is the apparent Democratic Party nominee — one must never count out the Clintons. They will never, ever give up. Hillary will do her best to get the Michigan and Florida delegates seated and get the super delegates to swing her way, even if it means destroying the Democratic party in the process — because for the Clintons it is not about Party, its not about values and its certainly not about country — its about power.
No matter what the results are when the day is through, I just do not see Hillary giving up — she will go all the way to the convention. It has already been an odd election cycle and one for the ages, I anticipate that the summer and the last few months before November will give us a whole hell of a lot more surprises.
Hugo Chavez has run out of cocaine…
March 3, 2008 by Joe
… and ordered Venezuela’s military to their border with Columbia, to get ready and retrieve some more for when Sean Penn comes back to visit.
Actually the communist piece-of-shit dictator of Venezuela has his panties all up in a bunch because the Columbian military did its job and killed a terrorist. Chavez, the terrorist loving scumbag that he is, did not like this because the dead terrorist was a fellow communist piece-of-shit.
President Hugo Chávez yesterday placed Venezuela on a war footing, sending thousands of troops and tanks to the border with Colombia after its neighbour killed a top rebel leader inside Ecuadorean territory.
“Mr. Defense Minister, move me 10 battalions to the border with Colombia immediately - tank battalions,” Mr Chávez boomed on his weekly television programme, Aló Presidente. He also placed the Venezuelan Air Force on standby for action.
“We do not want war”, said Mr Chávez, before adding that the slaying of rebel commander Raúl Reyes and Colombia’s incursion into Ecuadorean territory could not go unanswered. “I am putting Venezuela on alert and we will support Ecuador in any situation,” Mr Chávez said.
Mr Reyes, one of the Marxist Farc guerrillas’ most senior commanders, was killed on Saturday along with 16 other militants in a camp 1 mile inside Ecuadorean territory.
I predict, that nothing will happen. Its just a chance for Chavez to rattle his sabre and test the waters for possible future actions. It will probably end with the proverbial, Mexican standoff.
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