Comments on: Corp Profs At All Time High http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/corp-profs-at-all-time-high/ Facts, Thoughts, and Commentary Fri, 24 May 2013 19:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Roland http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/corp-profs-at-all-time-high/#comment-20018 Roland Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:16:35 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=2041#comment-20018 If corporations are people, why not force them to use the personal income tax. This would reduce their deductions for all sorts of things. Or, let me use the corporate income tax, with its “many exemptions and loopholes”, mentioned above.

]]> By: Tim Gard http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/corp-profs-at-all-time-high/#comment-19586 Tim Gard Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:10:28 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=2041#comment-19586 I’ve heard it suggested that lowering the corporate tax rate wouldn’t make a difference anyway because the biggest cost is still labor… and how much can you lower taxes in the US to make US labor cheaper than labor is elsewhere?

]]> By: Comma1 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/corp-profs-at-all-time-high/#comment-16467 Comma1 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:11:56 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=2041#comment-16467 Good job on This Week, although nobody on the set pointed out that closing the EPA is not a jobs plan. (As you do in this post). This was a missed opportunity. Furthermore, this should be repeated often.

The Repubo jobs plan is that they want to eliminate government jobs. We have yet to hear how they will create jobs, just more Bush style destruction of jobs. How long is this going to pass muster? What Hogwarts magic converts firing people from government jobs into more jobs total… it doesn’t make any sense. Stop the Slithering and point out when Repubos are perverting the language — saying up is down, black is white. There is no magic here.

]]> By: Robert http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/corp-profs-at-all-time-high/#comment-16427 Robert Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:52:19 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=2041#comment-16427 Jared,

It would be interesting to know what percentage of corporate profits since 2007 may be attributed to operating cost cutting (including labor), technology-enhanced productivity, and increased share of final sales. I suspect the largest portion of these profits is directly related to worker attrition due to involuntary layoffs.

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