Research study indicates that poor people will dramatically increase hiring of new employees if Bush tax cut is repealed. John Kerry is delighted with study results, saying it dispels a Republican "myth" that rich business owners will hire more people if they have more money.
"This only goes to show that tax increases, not tax cuts, are what we should be giving to the rich," Kerry told a group of UCLA researchers. "It doesn't matter if the rich pay more taxes, because this study shows that it's the poor people who are offering jobs to people."
Kerry refused to give an answer to a heckler in the audience who asked Kerry whether he personally "had ever been hired by a poor person."
"That's none of your business," was Kerry's terse response. "What are you, a Republican?" Kerry is well known for marrying into wealthy families.
The study suggests that poor employers will seek to hire new employees if Democrats manage to undo the tax cuts that Bush enacted. However, the study doesn't indicate what kind of wages poor employers could pay, or what if any kind of benefits a poor employer would pay.
Conservatives point out that there has been no peer review of the UCLA research group's results, and that the lead researcher had only two months ago been removed for smoking too much crack. Talk radio dismisses the result as typical "liberal propaganda" and challenged liberals to "put up [confirming evidence] or shut up."
