So, spend more on schools, and try to trick employers into hiring workers against their own best interests.... I’ll bet the tax breaks won’t cover the cost of Obamacare.
See what happened in the 1990’s with Clinton's 100,000 new police officers. The grants, aka tax breaks, ran out in a few years and the states and municipalities ended up firing the new police officers because they couldn't support them.
What will work is tax code changes that are permanent, or at least as permanent as any tax reductions can be. With he promise of some long term stability businesses will start hiring. A tax break that runs out in a year or three isn't any kind of longer stability.
Obama and reduction in taxes - now those two phrases don't belong on the same page much less the same sentence.