It has been demonstrated very clearly right here in my local area what kills jobs. It is over regulation and the lack of welcoming companies that just happen to provide jobs. And taxes are no small part of the formula.
It isn't always government that is the problem either. Several new companies and some well established companies have tried to add fascilities, make improvements and start new industries. In every single case, the local government has been cooperative, but the local environazis have stopped dead, or delayed indefinitely, every project that has been proposed.
One particular project proposed by one of the long established businesses wants to build a new boiler with the latest, greatest percipitators etc. and they have been stopped dead in their tracks by environmentalists who have no idea what they are doing. The company merely wants to replace two of the older boilers which are far less efficient and much worse polluters. The project would employ hundreds of construction workers and create a cleaner environment, but the project is on hold indefinitely and might never be done, because of loony environazis.
The same is true with a new company that has invested millions in land acquisition to build a new coal exporting fascility. Again, the local government approved the project. And once again the local environazis have all but killed the project. They used the excuse that exporting the coal would eventually pollute the atmosphere; the coal was slated to be exported to China. The Chinese are going to burn coal anyway, but at least this project would help balance the trade deficit.
The environmentalists were also up in arms because of concern that long coal trains would be bringing the evil substance into our area. What these idiots don't seem to understand is that there already is a 110 car coal train that passes right through the county every day on its way north to Canada where the coal is exported to China. So no new jobs for this area. Oh, unless they are green.
On the subject of "green jobs:" This area is one of the hot spots for installing wind generators (windmill electric generators) and of course all of those units are built in China. Anyway, after millions have been invested in these dubious units, they often sit idle, because there is an over abundance of hydro power available. If the water isn't used to generate electricity at the long established dams, the water has to be released over the spillways. So now the outfits who stupidly invested in Chinese windmills want the hydropower companies to subsidize them (pay them while their windmills sit idle). The net result is that our power rates have been raised twice in the past year.
How anyone can believe that raising taxes is a stimulant to create investment and new jobs is just as inane as the ridiculous idea that environazis do the same.
