quote:Originally posted by N-the-Sticks:On the other hand, it is my suspicion that almost all the people on here are actually getting a tax breakquote:
I may be getting a tax break,but is my employer?What good will an extra 13 dollars do me if I am layed off?
Perhaps if you and 250 million of your countrymen fritter that $13 per week away, that becomes a lot of money put back into the economy. Maybe you blow it all on one night out with the guys drinking a few beers. The bartender, the waitress, and the restaurant owner all get some of that money.
That in turn allows them to fritter it away on stuff they want to do.
See how that can help our economy .
Essentially, that is trickle-up economics.
You have more money so you drink more beer (as to thousands, no millions of us)
Because we drink so much, a shortage occurs, and Budweiser decides to open up a new brewery.
Construction workers make good wages building it, and go out and buy stuff with their money,
People are hired to work in the brewery and they make good money (actually, I knew people working in Schlitz brewery and they made waay more than good money)
They spend it on ... well you get the idea.
On the other hand, "Voodoo" or trickle-down economics which so many on here seem to favor, is the notion that somehow, if you give the owners of Budweiser a tax break, they will just go out and build that brewery just because they have more money to spend than they know what to do with.
That thought pattern (or IMHO lack of thought pattern) is not logical.