Would this tax-idea work?

[DetlefK]

What about a decrease of corporate taxes, hinged on a trigger? I'll make you an offer you can't refuse:

"If the US gains X million new jobs with a median wage of at least $Y by the date Z, then the corporate taxes are automatically decreased by A one year later."

What could the republicans do to counter it?
What could their talking-points be?

[NV Whino]

1. Answer

No, no, no and Obama care.

[antiquie]

2. How about this idea?

We get Congress to change the law so corporations actually pay fair share taxes and taxpayers do not subsidize.

[DetlefK]

3. Whatever you are smoking, I want some of it.

With the current gerrymander, any democratic congress before 2020 is unlikely. And the republicans will spend all of their time in congress doing exactly the same under President Clinton/Biden/Warren/Grayson what they have been doing all along: Symbolic votes to repeal Obamacare.

[antiquie]

6. Whatever you are drinking,

I want none of.
For tax relief to work as an incentive, the corporations must pay taxes first.

[DetlefK]

7. They CONSIDER themselves to be paying their share. And would always prefer to pay less.

No matter how much taxes you evade, there's always less you would prefer to pay.

[RC]

4. Won't work. Too Liberal.

Don't chaknow low corporate taxes create jobs?

[customerserviceguy]

5. A good way

to reduce corporate taxes while attacking the long-term unemployment situation is to offer tax credits to firms that hire targeted groups, such as the folks who have exhausted (or about to run through) their UC benefits. That would accomplish a lot of what your premise sets out to do.

It specifically ties tax relief to solving one of this country's biggest problems.