AFL-CIO Boss Richard Trumka Says Raising Taxes Best Way to Create Jobs . . . Wait, Did He Say Raising Taxes?
Brilliant!
(Yahoo! News) — What’s the best way to get Americans back to work?
Raise taxes, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas tax as a means to fund infrastructure spending. “We need a dedicated source of revenue to create infrastructure in this country,” he tells Aaron Task in the accompanying clip.
“We need to create jobs. The best way to do that is through infrastructure development.” Simply maintaining the existing infrastructure in this country will cost $2.2 trillion over five years, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. That doesn’t include Obama’s objective of high-speed rails and green energy projects.
Trumka didn’t say specifically how much he would raise the gas tax, but mentioned he’s shown the President a $256 billion plan to improve infrastructure. If every billion spent on infrastructure creates 35,000 jobs, as he claims, this package would create close to 9 million jobs over the next five years.
The idea would also improve America’s fiscal and competitive future, says Trumka. “There’s also a downstream effect, you put people back to work, they pay taxes, they don’t use services, they’re contributing, other jobs are created along the way as well,” he explains.
HT: Doug Ross
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Tax everyone 100% then redistribute based on need….yeah!
Infrastructure spending? Yea, I heard that before, but it was called a stimulus bill that totaled damn near a trillion.
Raise the gas tax? We’re gonna see $5 gal gas pretty damn soon and you want to tack on extra tax? Oh yea…just like the stimulus, it’s another slush fund for these union jackasses.
It is the best way to create government jobs. Then once everyone works for the government, we will no longer have to worry about any ‘socialist’ threat.
BECAUSE WE WILL BE SOCIALISTS!
That’s what socialism is. It’s one-long-continuous bailout. It’s where everyone owns, and is owned by, government. And every socialist Utopia must have a central planner. That’s where the dictator comes in….
Socialism: When you get up close, it never quite looks like it does in the brochure.
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barry is whispering in dicks ear, ” can you feel the stimulus package i’m gonna give you once we get backstage ” ?
Who in the F elected this guy to Financial Adviser.
Tax = Control.
That is what they want.
He wants to raise taxes on the American people to fund unions and no one else.
No doubt he will try to lobby for that as much as he can since he has got the ear of the President at least twice a week.
Infrastructure.
State road construction and maintenance jobs.
Public employee union jobs.
More dues paying members.
More money for Comrade Trumpaiskiay.
More power for Comrade Trumpaiskiay.
Comrade Trumpaiskiay doesn’t give a GODAMN SHIT ABOUT JOBS.
He cares only for himself.
Seriously, if Soetoro isn’t deposed and actually completes four years, think of all the BS they will name after him, schools, streets, airports, universities, ships, you name it
Trumka and the rest of these Pelosi IDIOTs just don’t get it. You lower taxes, people have more discretionary spending, manufacturing goes up, business thrives and the economy improves. You raise taxes, people hunker down, stay home, cut discretionary and weather the storm.
Trumka and the “lay sideways in the public trough Democratic liberals”, aren’t affected by massive tax increases. They continue to get there blood money from union members and taxpayers and expense any increase in their taxes to the membership and the citizens.
Trumka should be drawn and quartered like the rest of these assholes who are destroying this country.
I don’t recall voting for you, Comrade Trumka.
Who the hell are you to be offering tax suggestions anyhow?
Wasn’t that last porkulous bill supposed to go for infrastructure? You know, the one Barry admitted contained NO shovel-ready jobs and Rush said all along was just a slush fund for the DNC?
FOADIAF!
Oh HELL yea, do it, DO IT NOW.
Do it RIGHT NOW, with all this shit goin’ down in the Middle East, and oil at $100 a barrel and rising.
Do it, please, just DO it, so Obamateur can own that sweet, sweet $10 a gallon gas, and watch the economy take off.
Idiots.
Of course, Dumpka wants Barack Hussein and his Demoncrat lackeys to raise taxes. They line his very deep pockets and the pockets of his cronies.
Plunder and enslave. That’s the name of the socialist game.
Everytime I hear high speed rail I think of China.
What a bunch of assholes. Creating high speed rails does absolutely NOTHING to create jobs or help the infrastructure. How is high speed rail going to benefit those who live in Nebraska and Montana? They don’t use High Speed Rail to commute to work. Amtrak is like Aeroflot and without the continued government subsidy they would go the way of Oldsmobile and the Stanley Steamer.
Total bullshit. These people act like they can predict the future when in fact, they can’t tell any of us what time it is if they had a closet full of digital watches.
The High-speed-rail crap conjures up the Simpsons and their monorail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEZjzsnPhnw
Taking all the rich peoples money, and calling white people racist make jobs too. Dont forget that!
Oh, and while Im at it: coaching a little girls basketball team, taking dozens of vacations totaling probably a billion plus in taxpayer money, 60 + golf outings, extra ciricular govt spending (i.e. “stimulus packages”), calling out white people for being white, creating vitriol then calling Republicans on it, being a muslim but trying to convince everyone youre a Christian, so on and so on.
Those all create jobs too, obviously. The President said hes going to have a “laser-like focus” on job creation, and this is some of what hes been doing, so…. it MUST be his plan, right? Let me know when it works…..
FOADIAF = I figured out what that means… lol
Looking forward to 2012 when Fathead is out of the White House, and Obama too.
Trumka will meet his end the same way that Jimmy Hoffa did; a single gunshot would to the back of the head.
how original, borrow a bunch of money and spend it on unions. didn’t we do this already 6-7 times during this administration? and don’t forget, the more they blow on union jobs the bigger the democratic campaign coffers become.
YES! Let Trumka speak!
Because when the economy is in shambles, employment is at record highs, banks are failing, people can’t pay their mortgages and Obama is throwing taxpayer-financed concerts weekly, nothing motivates the average American like hearing they’re going to be asked to pay more taxes.
So go ahead Obama and Trumka! Keep it up! Let the people know how you REALLY feel!
Looks like Trumka hasn’t missed a meal in decades. Wonder if MOOSECHELLE is lecturing him on his eating habits.
hope he ends up like jimmy hoffa
Hoffa does indeed make a nice precedent for Trumka. What a foul turd.
That tax (how much is it) is going to put us out of business. These morons think that they can spend money like this
Forget it – I’m speechless.
Rich “the thug” Trumka sleeps more often with Obama than Michelle
does. It’s a “perk” that presidents have, but Andy Stern is jealous and
there may be some rumblings coming from the lock-step unions on
behalf of the “Community-organizer-in-chief”. Bam may have to
sleep with each of his “bosses” on alternate weekends to keep the peace.
Notice how Yahoo News puts Trumka up as though he is some kind of elected official:
“Trumka didn’t say specifically how much he would raise the gas tax, but mentioned he’s shown the President a $256 billion plan to improve infrastructure.”
What propaganda.
Someone tell this fat fuck to shut his pie hole!
The Hoodlum in Chief will support anything detrimental to America.
The AFL-CIO has come a long way down since George Meaney, Walter Reuther and even Lane Kirkland.
It’s rumored that ex NFL great Alex Karras is getting massive reconstructive surgery. He doesnt want to be confused with this idiot and come up missing.
I must have woke up this morning in bizarro world– you know– where everything is reversed.
I wake up and insane people are running the world and all the sane people are standing around in shock wondering when the implosion will occur.
Trumpka looks like that guy that peeks his head out of his burrow every Feb 2nd. to predict how much time this republic has left, no wait…..
Looks like Michelle O needs to take over his meal plan or maybe he should just push his fat ass away from the table (public trough) every one once in a while.
Why doesn’t this fat f*cker just sit by a pool somewhere a drink Mai Tais?
An anecdote: Prior to the demise of the Soviet Union, a commissar of the local soviet had heard reports of a farmer in the region that was withholding his resources from the government. So he went to the farmer and the conversation went something like this:
Commissar (C): Brother, I have heard that you are having intellectual difficulty with the doctrines of the Soviet Union, and not doing your part for the greater expansion of world communism.
Farmer(F): No, brother, that is not true. I welcome all efforts to make communism rule the world.
C: Well, let me ask you a few questions that will help settle whether or not you have the correct attitude towards the struggle for world wide domination by the obviously great and correct communist philosophy. If you had two chickens would you give one of those chickens to the local soviet so that the cause of communism might be enhanced over the addled views of the capitalist bourgeois.
F: Absolutely, commissar. If I had two chickens, I would be more than happy to give one of those chickens to your illustrious self for the greater good and triumph of the communist cause over the evil capitalist.
C: That is a most excellent answer, comrade. I am becoming more convinced of your correct mindset. A second question, then: if you had two pails and two shovels, would you be willing to part with a pail and a shovel so that more infrastructure might be created for the greater good and your local soviet.
F: Most assuredly, brother. If I had two pails and two shovels, you could take one of each right this instant so that all of the citizens of this fine denizen might benefit from the righteous view of communism.
C: I am almost convinced of your sincerity and my worries are greatly assuaged, fellow struggler in the communist cause. So I have only one more question: If you had two pigs, would you contribute one to the Marxist-Leninist philosophical struggle, insuring the triumph of the collective around the world?
F: Nope.
C: Excuse me, citizen. Did you just say no? You were willing to contribute a chicken, a pail, a shovel but not a pig? Might I ask why?
F: I have two pigs.
My answer to anyone that wants all of my hard earned wealth for the greater good is very simple: You first. Lead by example, Obama and Trumka. Why is that the ones who want your wealth for the good of all are generally the most tight-fisted when it comes to voluntary charitable giving. Read the studies: the liberal democrats are the worst when it comes to giving voluntarily. So again, I say, to Obama and Trumka, you first.
As you can tell– this guy is pissing me off
Is Trumpka smiling because Obama has both hands on his shoulders?
Let’s pan back on that scene– maybe they both have their pants down.
trumka is a fucking idiot commie rat bastard
Let me get this straight. This genius wants to increase the gas tax and collect $256 billion dollars to create infrastructure jobs. Yet Obumblefuck borrowed ~$800 billion dollars without raising new taxes and threw that money at infrastructure jobs, so he claimed.
$800 billion couldn’t do it, but another $256 billion will? Does he really think that this will create enough jobs for enough people to offset the depressive forces of higher gas costs on the country’s small businesses, the working class and the poor?
Anyone with half a brain knows what a crock of shit this is. Just another scam to funnel public money to his cronies. Steal from the people and give to the rich. A true communist if there ever was one.
HOW STUPID ARE THESE PEOPLE !!!!!!
You are going to raise taxes on people that
can not even find or keep a job in this country
anymore!
People that can not afford homes ANYMORE !
Jobs that only offer part-time at minimum wage
and NO benefits.
What the hell!!!
Did I just read that 99% of this country makes less than 31,000 dollars
a year!
And thousands upon thousands of college grads that can not find
a job, except fast food (if they are lucky) and Best Buy.
And then they are required to learn spanish in order to get the
damn job.
But hey, our president is in DC partying down!
Too much coffee and news this morning…sorry for the outrage.
bunch of fudge packers
may the fleas of a thousand camels infest their armpits
The best way to create jobs is borrow several Trillion dollars and use it to “create jobs” where ever needed. The only problem with that is when the initial sum is wasted/spent, there must be another round of borrowing., ad infinitum.
What is wrong with this approach? Nobody in DC sees any problem.
I must be a racist – because I think Trumkas plan blows!
Trumpka is as evil as George Soros, and as annoying as Baghdad Bob. Soros’ fingers should smelling pretty stink by now. Especially that little he always puts in his mouth. These guys and their ilk actually think they are getting away with something, and they are OUR COUNTRY!!!
Trumka is dumber than he looks, if that’s possible. And the Indonesian Imbecile is sneaky stupid, the more you watch him, the more you have to scratch your head and say: “Dumber than a bucket of hair….” Mark Steyn sums up unions:
“That’s what “collective bargaining” is about: It enables unions rather than citizens to set the price of government. It is, thus, a direct assault on republican democracy, and it needs to be destroyed. Unlovely as they are, the Greek rioters and the snarling thugs of Madison are the logical end point of the advanced social democratic state: not an oppressed underclass, but a spoiled overclass, rioting in defense of its privileges and insisting on more subsidy, more benefits, more featherbedding, more government.
Big Unions fund Big Government. The union slices off two per cent of the workers’ pay and sluices it to the Democratic Party, which uses it to grow government, which also grows unions, which thereby grows the number of two-per-cent contributions, which thereby grows the Democratic Party, which thereby grows government… Repeat until bankruptcy. Or bailout….”
Move to Detroit and see what unions, lazy blacks, and stupid libtards can do to a city.
commie bastard should be hung for treason