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Old 12-09-2012, 07:38 PM  
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Five Job-Destroying CEOs Trying to ?Fix? the Debt by Slashing Corporate Taxes

Five Job-Destroying CEOs Trying to ?Fix? the Debt by Slashing Corporate Taxes and Cutting Social Security Benefits

In poll after poll, the American people say they are far more concerned about the jobs crisis than the ?debt crisis.? A powerful coalition of CEOs says they have an answer for both problems.

Give us more tax breaks, they say, and we?ll use the money to invest and create jobs. The national economic pie will expand and Uncle Sam will get plenty of the frothy meringue without having to raise tax rates.

That?s the line of the Fix the Debt campaign. Led by more than 90 CEOs, this turbo-charged PR/lobbying machine is blasting the message that such ?pro-growth tax reform? should be a pillar of any deficit deal (along with cuts to benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare).

And it might be a good line ? if not for some pesky real-world facts.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/five...cutting-social

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