Vote on jobs creation bill went along party lines
Can you believe this?
Three Republican Legislators voted against a Jobs Creation bill last week.
The measure passed by a vote of 217-201 on a strict party line vote, as far as Minnesota is concerned.
Voting in favor were Tim Walz, District 1; Betty McCollum, District 4; Keith Ellison, District 5; Collin Peterson, District 7 and James Oberstar, District 8.
Voting against were: John Kline, District 2; Erik Paulsen, District 3 and Michele Bachmann, District 6.
At a time when jobs are needed, it’s a mystery why these Republicans would vote against this bill.
Once again, party loyalty reigns.
According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the bill would temporarily exempt businesses from having to pay the 6.2 percent employer’s share of Social Security withholding taxes on workers hired this year. Employers would receive a $1,000 tax credit for each hire that stays on the job for one year.
It’s estimated 300,000 would be put back to work at a cost of $13 billion.
The bill also subsidizes state and local bond issues for public works projects, authorizes businesses to depreciate up to $250,000 in capital investments in a single year and provides 19.5 billion from the highway trust fund designed to trigger $60 billion worth of highway and transit construction.
That vote should be a no-brainer for congress people who keep saying their priority is creating jobs.
Don Heinzman,
You have got to be kidding. Give school boards the athority to raise taxes??? And your solution to this if it is a problem for you, is to vote the school board members out. How about we vote them out at the state level. I have enough people with their fingers in MY POCKETS. The school boards and school districts have not lost any funds, yet. They may have not recieved everything they have wanted. A referendum was past here a few years ago only after repeated attemts. In the first week after passage everyone on the payroll receaved a big raise. That was bad timing and a dumb move. You want these same people to have unlimited access to my bank account??? Free speach for some should be a privelage until abused. You’ve abused it.