AFL CIO Chief: Raising Taxes Will Create Jobs

Yahoo Finance ^ | Feb. 25, 2011 | Peter Gorenstein

[econjack]

Guys like this obviously have never taken an econ course. The gov't spending multiplier is always one less than the private spending multiplier. Simply stated: Let me keep my money and I'll create more jobs than the gov't could ever hope to create. Notice how he advocates a financial transaction tax.

[Texas Eagle]

Does The AFL-CIO pay taxes?

[matginzac]

I just can’t STAND it anymore!!!
This guy is SUCH an EEEEEDJIT!!!!!

[Moose4]

Hey, Trumka? Gas has already gone up 25 cents in the last two days, you ass. We need a gas tax CUT, not an increase.

}:-)4

[Always Independent]

Tax the benefits of the public employee union worker that are over and above those earned by the private sector.

[1rudeboy]

Who knew Trumka was a FReeper posting on econ threads here?

[ReverendJames]

Except when those paying the taxes loose their job then the rest of the people paying taxes will get to pay more. Same old socialist mantra of spreading the wealth in a different way.

[MrB]

Even if he understood economics,
he’d still have the same agenda.

These guys really don’t care about “jobs” as much as they care about sucking as much life out of their fellow citizens as possible.

They’ll vote, every time, to keep all the benefits and payscales for the senior union members at the expense of jobs for less senior members.

[lurk]

These are make-work projects. Money taken from the people, filtered through govt agencies, and targeted at union jobs. And every hand that the money goes through takes a piece of the dough.

[cake_crumb]

"Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas tax as a means to fund infrastructure spending"

HE wants to? HE wants to raise taxes to fund "infrastructure" (read: unions). Interesting he thinks HE has the power to do this. Then again, we've always known who runs the Obama administration.

[ryderann]

The Secretary/Treasurer of the AFL-CIO is Liz Shuler, Rep. Heath Shuler’s cousin. Am I the only one who sees a red flag?

[Ev Reeman]

This just goes to show how far gone these liberals, democrats, union leaders, they are.

Ask them for absolute proof of that claim and then watch them sputter, hem and haw trying to defend that position (they cant).

Liberals, democrats and union leaders are commies and they are also friggin nuts!

[4Liberty]

Tumpka needs to sit in a class with Tom Sowell for 15 weeks. Dumb protectionist creep.

[cake_crumb]

If Obama would open oil drilling back up here, the price per barrel would go down.

[runninglips]

So he advocates spending another 450 Billion a year, because obviously we are not spending enough at 3.7 Trillion. I mean 4.2 Trillion has got to be better than the 2 Trillion that the govt currently brings in.

In another unrelated story, Mrs. Runninglips was griping the other day about the piddling $60K I was spending on household upkeep, food, clothing etc. She mentioned that if we just spent $130K over the next 5 years, the kids will prosper, the carpet will be improved, and of course the entire neighborhood will thrive.

[RichInOC]

Mr. Trumka, as a California driver who spends entirely more time than I care to think about in the car, on the freeways, burning gas, I have a two-word answer for you. The second word is “you”.

[JPG]

Mr. Trumka, lets run your $256,000,000,000 request by the GOP House. Oh, Darn!...they said NO. To save you some time, they also have an answer to all of your other union thug, brain-dead ideas....NO!!!!

[Roccus]

HE visits the White House a couple of times a week and is one of Zer0’s top advisors.

[Buckeye McFrog]

oh, PLEASE, Barry, take Richie’s advice with the cost per gallon shooting up towards $4

[y6162]

Translation: unions want a dedicated revenue source. It’s such a bother electing politicians.

Not to mention that there is already a gas tax that’s supposed to go into a highway fund.