Can business owners do whatever they want with the tax cuts Republican politicians promise them?

Question

And they're just expected to do the right thing?

How do we ensure they are going to a good cause (i.e. creating jobs, giving pay raises) and not the owner's bank account?

Is the GOP for people who have already made it in life more so than it is for people trying to achieve the American dream?

Answer 1

Exon Mobile and the other corporations can stick the money in their executive officer's pockets.

Answer 2

seems like if they did what was expected of them with these tax breaks we wouldn't see:

1. rising costs in all markets

2. shrinking wages and more production

3. gigantic gigantic ceo bonuses

Answer 3

Since when do you have the right to tell a business owner what he/she can do with his/her profits?

Should I be able to tell you what to do with all your income that you use on things other than basic life necessities (food, shelter, clothes)?  All that money you spend going to movies, amusement parks, restaurants, mini golf - should I be able to tell you to donate it to charity or something?

Geez, get out of other people's lives!

Edit:  Oooo, I think I touched a nerve... LOL - you think the people who work their way to the top of a company don't work hard?  Why don't you come tell that to my boss.  I work at a company of about 50 people - we do architecture and engineering.  He started this company twenty-something years ago, has put in immense amounts of work building it up from just himself to what it is today.  He has to oversee the company, make decisions about what kinds of business we do, and he does some engineering himself - when he has time between everything else he has to do.  If you raise his taxes, he will either have to stop giving us raises, or possibly lay some people off just to keep the company from going under and having us ALL lose our jobs.  I deeply respect what he has accomplished - I'm sorry you can't see that most people in charge of business started out the same as anyone else, but just took life by the horns and got things accomplished.  Maybe if you had done the same, you'd be by his side, defending his right to keep his hard-earned money.

Answer 4

"How do we ensure they are going to a good cause (i.e. creating jobs, giving pay raises) and not the owner's bank account?"

a) You can't.

b) You shouldn't.

c) How do you define "good cause?" What's a good cause for one is not always for another.

d) What right do you or the government have to a business's money anyway? What right do you or the government have to tell people how they must spend the money they work for and earn or else you'll take more of it away?

e) Any business that wants to grow larger and more profitable will do precisely those things. Some mom and pop who are going to sell off the store in 5 years and retire might indeed pad the bank account so that they afford to do so, but some start-up will reinvest in themselves in the areas of personnel, equipment, production, and advertising so that they will grow. That's what business is and does.