It is worth noting that Obama's economic advisor, Professor Goolsbee of the University of Chicago, published an article several years ago showing that when business investment is attracted to a low tax environment, hiring increases and employee market power increases, and thus wages rise. He is thus a guy who will understand the fact that our current tax system, which penalizes corporations for placing operations in this country, is not only reducing jobs but suppressing wages, helping to drive the increasing over concentration of wealth we have been seeing.
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/austan.goolsbee/research/cps.pdf
An increasing number of people are catching on to this fact (though thy need to be educated on the practical mechanism for affordable and progressive reform set forth at
http://www.sharedeconomicgrowth.org/home/summaryslideshow.html )
For example, John Endean, President of the American Business Council, is quote on TaxVox as follows:
"John Endean raised an intriguing idea the other day in response to my blog on whether business executives would be willing to give up targeted tax breaks in return for a lower corporate rate, as John McCain has suggested.
John, who is president of the American Business Conference, said that one of his CEO members has a different swap in mind: Completely repeal the “terrible” corporate income tax and pay for it by raising rates on top-bracket taxpayers. In effect, this would directly tax the owners of capital rather than doing so through the backdoor of the corporate tax."
McCain's economic advisor, former senator, Phil Gram, is meanwhile denying that anything is wrong with the economy. I guess he's better off than he ever was, so he does not see a problem. If one judges a man by the company he keeps, who should American employees favor?
HQ you guys have lost touch with the Obama campaign fundraising base over the last 2 months since the primaries ended.
First, you stop putting up the counter which generated the most excitement - people want to see the counter "adding up" the donations.
The Hillary "pay off" also did not help you but that is another story I won't even get into because it's a touchy issue, still is crippling fundraising efforts overall.
Second, you have to come up with a BIG NUMBER. Don't do some 150,000 by July 4th deal (that number should be 1,000,000 donors not 150,000). DO A HUGE NUMBER - $100 Million!
At the average rate of $90, 1,000,000 donors would add $90 Million. We need a big score and this can happen. It doesn't matter WHEN it happens it just needs to happen. So what if it takes more than one reporting cycle, more than 30 days, who cares? We need to make this number.
Stop thinking SMALL HQ.
What happened to the Obama Mojo??? (i.e. "Yes We Can" ??? - where did that go?)
I can't believe HQ has let this happen. What are you guys thinking? Get Real and get back to the roots of what has been proven to work - THE COUNTER.
Every since you hid it donations have plummeted substantially.
Doing these "high dollar" fundraisers will make the core online contributor feel left out and is you don't need "our money" especially since most of us will never ever attend these events.
And PLEASE lay off the trickster donation crap (send in $5 to get a chance to be 1 of 10 for the Arena in Denver). This is below our intelligence here. Sure we would like to attend this and would give $5. But don't talk down to us and use trickery to entice a donation. We are not stupid.
Get back to your roots.
Come up with a HUGE NUMBER, put the counter back up. Go back to what has worked and GET REAL. Come down a notch from the "corporate" mindset, please.
Do this and you will see more donations come in.
