How do you feel about tax breaks for business? Would you vote for a candidate that was for it or against it?

Would you rather give a large corporation a tax break or would you make them pay the same taxes as everyone else?

If you give them the tax break you would not earn any tax revenue from that company but it would bring 5,000 new jobs to your town. That would mean more service industry jobs, more new homes, and more new businesses for your town.

If you don't give them the tax break, they will take their business somewhere that they will get the tax break and you will lose out on the economic growth from the support industry. But, everyone will be treated equally and you will have kept the moral high ground.

Which would you do? I ask because people keep talking about tax breaks for big business like it's a bad thing. In the town that I live in, we had a company that wanted to move in, but with tax breaks. They were denied. This company went elsewhere and we lost more jobs than we have people to fill, and all of the revenue from the supporting industries and commuters.

The company that we lost out on would have offered employees $2.00 more per hour than the average wage of the town. Other companies would have had to raise their pay to keep employees. It would have been good for everyone. The county would have lost out on property taxes from the company but would have gained it from new home buyers, new car buyers, and sales tax.

If tax breaks for business will keep the businesses at home, why not give it to them. If we do that, then we need to tax the #$%^ out of imports so that people will actually buy American products. We need to have heavy penalties for American companies that send jobs overseas.

If you tax them, the tax is passed through to the purchasing public anyway. It might be better to vote for the guy that will help to bring jobs to the area.

This is a problem with high tax areas. Businesses can up and move giving the tax and spend politician nothing but empty words when he says business doesn't contribute it's fair share.

Tax breaks for small businesses definitely... but big business? No way! They already make enough profit without the government adding to it. Also, the way that large corporations treat their customers/employees generally sickens me... but that's a different rant.

It's fine to give businesses a tax break as long as they don't send those jobs overseas, which the Republicans have been doing.

Obama for America!

i would vote for one that would give tax breaks to small business owners and farmers. unfortunately mcpain wants to give a 2 billion dollar tax break to exxon mobile.

OBAMA '08

Not certain where I fall on this. Tax breaks for companies might be a good thing but as long as it actually worked for the good welfare of the place it's located in.

democrats '08

No tax for U.S companies or tarrifs for U.S comapnies so buisneess can expand and reinvest in economy. It will bring jobs to america becuase they dont have to pay no taxes

They should but tax breaks should go to small buissnesses as well not just big buissness

That is a very smart thought on your part. I try to explain the same idea to others, but they are caught up in the "stick it to the man" mantra.
If you raise taxes on McDonalds, or raise minimum wage, the price of the hamburger goes up to cover it. In fact, they usually raise it more. So the minimum wage goes up, but the worker is worse off because his buying power is reduced. The rest of us making more than minimum wage actually end up making less do to our reduced buying power.