UNBELIEVABLE!

Well, well, well. Which small businesses do you know of that are struggling with the decision between locating their office or factory in Ireland versus their own hometown ? None that I know of. Not the restaurant on Main Street, not the retailer at the mall, not the architectural firm in my metro area. None of them. So, how exactly would a corporate tax rate cut to large corporations with that kind of luxurious decision about which country to setup a business in, actually help a large portion of the American economy ?

Whether I have a small business already or I’m planning on starting one, McCain’s chosen tax “point” he made would not help me at all. If I’m an individual employee in any business, government agency, or educational institution in America … this would not help me at all either. So, who would it help ?

If the concept of trickle-down economics is the point McCain was trying to make, where the big corporation choosing to open an office or factory in my hometown would be helped by this tax cut, then I’m not interested. Building a factory or office building anywhere takes time, the decision to figure out where to locate the business requires months or years of planning. While these big corporations are mulling over their “hard choices” and also considering India, China, or anywhere else in the world that will give them a better deal … my family and I will be sitting around with less medical care, less wages, higher gas prices, higher groceries, and no more jobs in my hometown. Even if the 1 in a million chance of the corporation choosing my hometown to locate their big new job-creation business occurs, what about the rest of the millions of Americans across the country that weren’t that lucky ?

Take the tax cuts all these corporations and big-money executives have been raking in away from them NOW, and fund the programs we need in each and every city, county and state ACROSS THE COUNTRY : child care for low-income workers, financial assistance for college students, mortgage relief for honest homeowners in foreclosure or bankruptcy who were not speculating on the real estate market, and the workers and first responders we need to keep our core social services intact : nurses, teachers, police, firefighters, etc.

Let me know if I missed something ?