How effective are the Bush tax cuts at creating jobs?

[Kasz216]

richardhutnik said:

Kasz216 said:

So if i get this straight...

You are looking at the tax cuts, and the unemployment in general... and saying they didn't work.

Ignoring the whole financial collapse, and the dot com bust for that matter.

It's that like saying someone was bit by a rattlesnake, took rattlesnake anti-venom, and then was shot.  Therefore rattlesnake anti-venon does't work?

Before the big financial crisis... unemployment was lower then when he became president.

At 4.6

Bush took office in 2001 not 2000... in the middle of a huge economic problem that Bush clearly didn't have time to create.

By you saying that, you are in effect saying there are things FAR more important to the unemployment rate being where it is than tax cuts.  Like, if the financial markets meltdown and other things.

In regards to umeployment January 2001, it was 4.2% not 4.6%:

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2001/feb/wk1/art01.htm

I mention all this, because the ONLY thing that EVER comes out of the GOP whenever there is economic issues is to cut regulation and cut taxes.  Tough to say how tax cuts are effective, in light of what is going on now.  If you cut taxes, and the money that would of been spent by people in welfare in America gets invested in China and elsewhere, it is hard to say tax cuts create jobs.

Yes, there are more importan things... which are generally uncontroable and unfixable.

However tax custs do help.