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I thought they were all about lower taxes.
As someone said, there are jobs available. Knuckle aren't you affiliated with the energy field? You probably know of the utility worker shortage facing that industry.
A lifetime of McDonalds, Playstation and surfing the net doesn't prepare kids for trades these days. They're probably too fat to climb a pole anyway. I sure as hell don't want a 20 something running the local nuke plant either.
That said, I can't imagine a scenario where a $4k tax break would be the deciding factor in my hiring someone that would cost me $50k/yr.+unknown benefits (Obamacare) to employ. Either you need and can afford another employee or you don't.
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Companies hire based on NEED, not profits or tax breaks.
You either NEED additional staffing or you don't, tax breaks or higher profit doesn't matter.
Companies downsized during the recession and realized they were over-bloated and carried massive redundancy, and they can now do the same job and maintain production, even increasing production, with the smaller staff.
They don't need to hire people.
This is why companies are sitting on the sidelines with massive profits and trillions of dollars and not hiring...because they don't need to.
Some companies, like mine, could either get by and struggle a little, or hire a few more employee's.
You shouldn't lump every company in the same basket. Some companies lay off to cut overhead and save money. Some public companies hire people the create the perception that they are growing like gangbusters to make wall street happy.
Business's have different needs, and can operate in very different ways. Your "companies hire based on need" isn't some type of, set in stone business standard. So please don't act as if a tax break for "small business" on new hires is worthless.
Again, this hasn't passed, and the details could change before it does pass.
You have people saying that it's going to be "minimum wage" work, and you are saying that's it's jobs at 50k so the 4k is no incentive.
There are jobs that are in between the the two, and yes, on those types of jobs, 4k is quite a savings.
Is when people talk about how American's are willing to do the low paying jobs that the hispanic illegal's are doing. And then when something comes out of Obama's mouth about tax incentives for new hires, they act as if those jobs are worthless and below the standards of the American work force.
Again, If this passes, I will hire a few with wages in the 30k range and I don't believe that I will be a minority on this.
BING "frickin" O!
Right there, plenty of truth about this nonsense of "job creation" president Obama is so fond of.
Drop this kind of thinking like the bad habit it is, and move on.
All I can say is, SHEESH!
Not to worry about the health care plan. I think taxes kick in next year, and the program goes into affect in 2014. If I am wrong on that, someone please feel free to correct me, because I am not totally sure. But after a year or two of collecting the taxes, the republicans are going to be successful on killing the program. Then both parties are going to fight on how, and who get's the spend the monies collected.
BTW: Killing the program isn't going to hurt my feelings. Although I feel that the cost of medical care is a real problem, this is the wrong approach to fixing the problem.
Please explain why part of this job's bill shouldn't be put into affect? The tax incentive for new hires won't cost you a dime as a tax payer. It's offering a tax deduction for anyone willing to hire a new employee. How can that be a bad thing?
As you have said before, it doesn't fit into your business model, but that doesn't mean that it won't work with other business's.
http://thinkprogress.org/progress-report/
Your half Caucasian half negroid man is not considering Israel
This is all about Wal-Mart and McDonald's type Fortune 500 companies being able to write off more profits so they can give those profits to "fund raising" while they replace seasonal or part-time minimum wage employees. People who would have quit and been replaced anyways.
Obama is all about the talk and the show, who cares who pays the bills. The Government knows best. Business owners cannot think for themselves.....
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Funny thing is, we've sent 3 guys through. All passed. Not hired. One guy was Vietnamese.
I wish they'd pick someone...Evidently your chances are much better if you are from African decent.
Please if you live in the DFW metroplex, and would like to work for Coke, if you're black and can work on machines, PM me.
These are high speed machines.
The AMA's article gives no credit to him except the signature at the end.
In a victory for families who enjoy responsible motorized recreation, President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill to allow the sale of kids' off-highway vehicles (OHVs) to continue, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) reports.
On Aug. 12, Obama signed into law H.R. 2715, introduced by Reps. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.). The measure exempts kids' OHVs from the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008, known as the lead law.
The CPSIA, which went into effect on Feb. 10, 2009, banned the making, importing, distributing or selling of any product intended for children 12 and under, including kids' dirtbikes and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), that contained more than a specified amount of lead in any accessible part that might be ingested.
H.R. 2715 cleared the House by a 421-2 vote on Aug. 1 just before lawmakers went into their summer recess, and earned Senate approval by unanimous consent the same day.
The new law is a victory that is the result of nearly three years of intensive efforts by the AMA and its partner organization, the All-Terrain Vehicle Association (ATVA), their members and millions of advocates of responsible OHV recreation.
"Federal legislators deserve a lot of thanks for their tireless efforts, especially U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.), U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and all the other lawmakers who supported an exemption," said AMA President and CEO Rob Dingman. "Hundreds of thousands of parents, kids and motorcycling club members responded to AMA calls for action to contact their elected officials and their efforts, along with all those volunteers who circulated petitions and took other actions, brought this issue to the attention of Congress and turned the tide in our favor.
"I'm sure that those letters, emails and telephone calls to Congress had a major impact in convincing lawmakers to exempt OHVs from the lead law," Dingman said. "I'm also convinced that the AMA Family Capitol Hill Climb held on May 26 played a major role, since it put a human face on the issue by showing lawmakers the kids and families who are suffering because of the CPSIA.
"I want to thank Racer X magazine, Doublin Gap Motocross Park, Mason Dixon Riding Association 6 and 7, Tomahawk MX Park, the Middle Atlantic Motocross Association, Budds Creek Motocross Park, High Point Raceway, and advocates such as the Yentzer family and Moto-Patriot Nancy Sabater, who brought youngsters to Washington, D.C., for the AMA Family Capitol Hill Climb to lobby their lawmakers," he said.
Dingman also thanked other organizations and individuals that worked diligently on the effort, including the Motorcycle Industry Council and Specialty Vehicle Institute of America, which represent the motorcycle and ATV industries; the motorcycle enthusiast and trade media; Sean Hilbert, president of Cobra Motorcycles, which makes kids' dirtbikes; the Coombs family and Tim Cotter of MX Sports, which has conducted the famed AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship featuring thousands of promising young riders for the past 30 years, and Kirk "Hardtail" Willard, president of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation.
"I want to extend a very special thanks to Malcolm Smith, a member of the Motorcycle Hall of Fame, who brought a lot of attention to the unfairness of the lead law when he hosted a media event at Malcolm Smith Motorsports and sold some youth OHVs as a symbolic gesture to protest the law," Dingman said.
The AMA has been at the forefront of the fight to exclude child-sized motorcycles and ATVs from the CPSIA since early 2009. The association has participated in news events to focus media attention on the issue, lobbied on Capitol Hill, and organized campaigns to encourage riders and parents to contact their federal lawmakers and key decision-makers to exempt kids' OHVs from the CPSIA.
As a result, every single member of Congress, as well as members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), has received powerful statements from members of the AMA and ATVA.
The AMA magnified these efforts through its "Kids Just Want to Ride" campaign. To read more of what the AMA has done in its efforts to exempt kids' OHVs from the CPSIA, go to http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/Rights/KeepKidMotorcyclesAndATVsLeg….
Aimed at children's toys, the CPSIA ensnared kids' dirtbikes and ATVs because trace levels of lead can be found in parts such as batteries and brake calipers. Other children's products were also affected by the CPSIA, such as books, clothes and microscopes.
The CPSC, which is responsible for implementing the CPSIA, delayed enforcement of certain parts of the law until the end of this year, granting a reprieve for child-sized dirtbikes and ATVs. That gave those concerned about the law time to change it before the reprieve ended.
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