this bullshit about punishing job creators that republicans keep hawking, claiming that raising taxes on people who have an enormous amount of money means that there won't be any jobs, is the most lying nonsense. the reason there are jobs -- and this is part of the whole structure of capitalism -- is because there are people who have money to spend. and since the government won't raise revenues people have to be laid off which means that people don't have money to spend which means that things won't get bought and more people will fall into poverty.

ending unemployment benefits or laying off teachers or whatever means that those people collecting unemployment or who were teaching may well plunge headlong into not having money to spend on things. and i suppose what these scoundrel republicans are arguing for is that these public sector beneficiaries will be hired by private business, and that they'd be more likely to do this if there were no taxes on them, but there's enough evidence out there saying that that isn't true to make one yank out one's hair in a single handful.