{"id":527,"date":"2011-10-04T04:40:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=527"},"modified":"2011-10-04T04:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:48:35","slug":"business-owners-investors-say-tax-changes-make-%e2%80%98zero-difference%e2%80%99-in-hiring-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-not-sure-what-the-connection-is%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/business-owners-investors-say-tax-changes-make-%e2%80%98zero-difference%e2%80%99-in-hiring-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-not-sure-what-the-connection-is%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Owners, Investors Say Tax Changes Make \u2018Zero Difference\u2019 In Hiring: \u2018I\u2019m Not Sure What The Connection Is\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/10\/03\/334762\/business-taxes-zero-difference\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ipaytaxes.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But a surprising group of people find that to be entirely untrue: the \u201cjob creators\u201d themselves. As the billionaire behind the Buffett Rule, Warren Buffett, explained, \u201cI have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone \u2014 not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 \u2014 shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. People invest to make money, and potential taxes have never scared them off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, 200 millionaires created a group known as the Patriotic Millionaires to make this exact case. In a direct rebuttal of the GOP, members of the group like Ask.com founder Garrett Gruener noted that a higher tax rate makes \u201czero difference\u201d in how he invests:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/10\/03\/334762\/business-taxes-zero-difference\/\">Business Owners, Investors Say Tax Changes Make \u2018Zero Difference\u2019 In Hiring: \u2018I\u2019m Not Sure What The Connection Is\u2019 | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; But a surprising group of people find that to be entirely untrue: the \u201cjob creators\u201d themselves. As the billionaire behind the Buffett Rule, Warren Buffett, explained, \u201cI have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone \u2014 not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,16,4,22],"tags":[24,147,70,34,26,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}