Recently a new slogan has entered in the conservative consciousness, pumped in by the plutocratic BS public-relations machines. Businesses are allegedly not hiring due to uncertainty over healthcare and/or taxes.
However, uncertainty was at an all-time high in the months after 9/11. Shoe-bombers, bra-bombers, anthrax in the mail, antibiotics shortages, etc., all contributed to high anxiety. Yet the economy avoided a recession (or at least avoided going deeper into the existing one).
Further, most businesses hire based on actual sales, not some tax fear or what-not. Our "big iron" manufacturing has largely gone overseas such that we have mostly cubicle services, not big heavy factories with slow ramp-up times. If there was demand, they'd start by hiring temporary workers if they had medium- and longer-term fears. However, this is not happening.
Plus, a businesses' competitors face the same tax and healthcare changes such that the playing field stays roughly even between companies. If both teams start out with 12 players, and the big bad wolf government came and took one player off each team such that both sides only had 11, the competitive ability of each team would remain generally the same (assuming the removed players were roughly of the same skill).
In short, it's just right-wing exaggeration and clap-trap.
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