The issues are more that it reduces taxes by the upper class far more than the middle class. I am sure you will be able to find a few examples of companies that are giving one time bonuses and a few that are hiring more people or giving salary increases. My question is this. What percentage of the money that companies are saving is going to the employees and what percentage is going to the wealthy shareholders? Bear in mind that something like $59 billion of the personal tax reductions are going to people earning less than $100k per year and $259 billion to the vastly smaller number earning more than $100k per year. As you go up the salary brackets the figures become more and more disproportionate. With the top 0.01% saving well over $60 billion. They could easily have given far more back to the lower and middle class which would have contributed more to the economy because those people tend to spend any extra income rather than save it. None of the tax savings figures being bandied around are providing numbers for how much the mega rich (read donors) are going to save from the company tax rate drops and other "breaks" that they got.
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Unfortunately that doesn't work in an economy. You need to have people working at all wage levels and some of those wage levels aren't high enough for people to afford day care. Should poorer people not have children? If that's what you want then you will end up with an economy without any fast food or retail shops. Those jobs pay minimum wage. Without poorer people, your big mac would cost 10 times as much. Yes, all of that means that the filthy rich have to pay a bit more than those at the bottom and they get cheap labor in return for that. They get to shaft people by not paying for medical insurance and other benefits. The only alternative is to ship all of that offshore which will certainly hurt the economy a lot more. You should be grateful that you are better off than those less fortunate because those who are working 2 jobs aren't just doing it for a couple of years. It's a lifetime of that.
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That's unfortunately what happens in life. My father died when I was 3 and I spent a good few years in day care while my mother worked her butt off. I count myself very lucky to be in my position in life. I don't begrudge people less fortunate than myself getting some benefits. Especially because upward mobility has all but stalled. In the past it was possible for people to move from lower to middle class or from middle to upper class. Now days it's close to impossible. That's why people are so angry. Not because they are unemployed but rather because they don't see upward mobility for their kids and their salaries have stagnated.