[reaganaut1]

More employers would be hiring if they did not face higher taxes, health insurance mandates, card check, and mandatory arbitration. This summer was not a good time to have raised the minimum wage.

Generous unemployment and COBRA benefits reduce the pressure on the unemployed to take the jobs available, but it's "insensitive" to say that.

[DB]

So if something doesn’t work, do more of it...

[johniegrad]

Obama administration economists said they would like the enhanced unemployment-insurance program to extend beyond its Dec. 31 expiration date. They also want to maintain a program that offers tax credits to pay 65% of the cost of health insurance policies under the COBRA program, which allows laid-off workers to purchase the health plans they had through their previous employer. White House officials said they also are examining whether to extend a soon-to-expire tax credit for first-time homebuyers, but that provision faces a stiffer headwind.

Same old manure.

Pay people to not work. Take my tax dollars to pay for their health care. Encourage people to buy homes who cannot afford them

Maybe we can bring back cash for clunkers and Obamacare for roads.

[Sherman Logan]

The recession could have ended in January.

Just declare a one-year moratorium on all federal taxes. Economic activity would have exploded. Cost = less than the various stimulus packages.

Of course, this approach would have empowered actual people, not government. So it wasn’t even considered by anybody in Congress, not even the Republicans.

I’m sure there would have been some negative economic consequences to such a policy, but I’m not an economist, so I have no idea what they would be.

[depressed in 06]

"We've got a budget deficit to think about, too."

The Chinese told us so.

[MNJohnnie]

Renew the Bush tax-cuts and give a $1000 business tax credit for every employee hired to cover training and hiring costs.

It would cost us far less then all this “stimulus” and it would actually create jobs not pork.

[Redleg Duke]

The dirty little secret is that the benefit of reduced COBRA benefits is taxable. All those saps are going to have to pay taxes on the reduction. Just like those suckers who went for the Cash for Clunkers scam.

[savedbygrace]

The beginning of several new entitlements is happening right before our eyes.

[Uncle Miltie]

Look folks, until 0bummerCare, Cap and Tax, forced unionization, Porkulus continuation, money supply blowout, and other Tax Increases are defeated, get the hell out of U.S. Investments.

We have possibly the worst investment climate this side of Zimbabwe.

Until 0bummer is soundly defeated, capital should flee, nobody should hire, and we should all grow vegetables.

Who is going to hire in that climate?

[SE Mom]

It’s hard to know quite how to respond to these people. They live under so many layers of delusion, of IOU’s to powerful unions and now, I expect, by a tinge of fear, that they cannot be reasoned with.

[Iron Munro]