If Business Were Really In A Position To Hire, They Would
 

To pretend companies are not hiring, because they are confused about a few tax-relates scenarios that are in a state of flux, is bullshit - straight up!

If you need workers, you will hire them.

If you have a need to grow, based on demand, you will hire workers and grow.

Most companies are not hiring, because most companies are not growing.

If companies REALLY needed to hire people today, and a 5% tax-related question is stopping them, then they can EASILY offer 5% less in the salaries they are currently offering, and in today's economy, the list of applicants will still pour in.

Such nonsense....

LOL and why do you think they are not "growing" huh brainiac. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:error

Agreed.

It comes down to if the company is growing or not. That other horse shit does not come into play in the equation. If you have a lot of growth, you hire, if not, then you do not. I honestly do not think that 'taxes' come into equation for MOST day-to-day operations.

:2 cents:

Companies aren't hiring because they don't need to. Employee productivity is at an all-time high. When 10 employees do the work of 12, 15, or even more, why hire?

Plus the recession is pushing even mid-level jobs requiring a high degree of analysis offshore at a faster rate than before--Insurance claims, medical analysis, even legal work (evidence/privilege screening) are moving offshore (India primarily).

The question that looms is not whether there will be a jobless recovery but whether the new crop of jobs will match the education/experience level of the work force. Serious changes. Also serious opportunities as the US economy evolves.

I would guess that a significant percentage of the unemployed doesn't know how to do office shit and thus wouldn't get an office job, doesn't want to work at Mickie D's, and doesn't want to do most of the types of shit that the illegals are doing. So yea, for those people there's not going to be much work.

Why should they when they can live off welfare, their main job is having children.

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Everybody is terrified of being the next on the chopping block and are busting their asses. Of course businesses are going to take full advantage of the productivity bump. It is not uncommon for a single person to hold two or more "positions" within a company during a recession. The employee will happily do it without a raise so long as they feel there is job security.

There are dozens of tax breaks expiring, it's not all as simple as you think...

for example lets say that you are in business of selling electric vehicles and electric vehicle tax credit is likely to expire, which will lower demand for your products significantly, would you invest in additional workforce in that situation or would you be hesitant?

WASHINGTON ? Job openings are rising modestly, a sign that employers may step up hiring soon.

The number of jobs advertised rose by 6.2 percent to 3.04 million in July, according to the Labor Department's latest data. That's the highest total since April, when temporary census hiring inflated that month's figure.