Explain This To Me

I have some questions. As apparent in tonight's debate, Barack Obama (along with many of the politicians in the legislative branch), wants to tax the "you-know-what" out of American Corporations. Maybe he has insights into a free-market, capitalist economy that no one has ever had before in history. Maybe Obama supporters know something that I don't...

Where do jobs come from? Do they grow on trees? Do they exist independently of corporations? Do they just appear out of thin air? Hey, I was just standing there waiting for the bus the other day when, out of nowhere, a job just appeared right next to me. It was the most amazing thing!!

Now...hmmmm...where do jobs originate. Well, I thought it was businesses that created jobs. Manufacturing companies need workers to build and sell the products. Service companies need workers to perform the services. Oil companies need people to build the refineries, to "refine" the oil. They need workers to transport the oil. Gas stations need workers to sell the gasoline. Auto companies need workers to build the cars, workers to sell the cars, workers to deliver the cars. Electronics companies need workers to build, distribute, and sell the electronics. Newspapers need people to gather the news, to sell the adds, to make the papers, to deliver the subscriptions. Grocery Store companies need workers to stock and sell the groceries. Restaurants need cooks to cook, servers to serve, managers to...

Wait a minute!! Many of these types of companies exist that make well over the $250,000 maximum after which their taxes will be raised drastically. What happens to the oil truck driver when the company has to pay more taxes? What happens to the auto worker when, since the oil company has to pay more taxes, it has cut production which has, in turn, raised demand which has, in turn, caused gas prices to increase which has, in turn, caused people to buy less cars? On top of it all, taxes have gone up on the auto worker's company. Will he or she still have a job?

The guy who works on the electronics assembly line, what will happen to his job when the company realizes that it can flee the country and manufacture the product in another nation where the taxes are less oppressive. Of course, this is great for the worker in Taiwan who will get a new job, but now how does the "electronics-assembly-line" guy pay his bills?

Now the oil truck driver, the auto worker, and the "electronics-assembly-line guy" have all lost their jobs. All three used to call the "plumber" (maybe the same one that Obama wants to use to "spread the wealth") to "come and fix the sink" (a little "The Electric Company" lingo there). Now the three workers/consumers cannot afford to pay the plumber to "fix the sink". The plumber, recently having his taxes raised and not having the same demand for his company's services as before, now has to "let go" of some of the other plumbers.

Now we have plumbers, oil truck drivers, auto workers, and "electronic-assembly-line" guys out of work. They all saved a little money for hard times such as these so they still have some money to buy food. They go to the grocery store to buy food and...oh no...how did this happen? Food prices have sky-rocketed.

The plumber, the oil truck driver, the auto worker, and the "electronic-assembly-line guy" all go to the grocery store manager and say, "Hey, dude!! We've all lost our jobs, and now you're raising grocery prices??!!!"

The grocery store manager explains, "When oil prices went up, gas prices went up. When gas prices went up, the transportation companies raised their transportation prices. Since it costs more money to get the food from 'here to there' our costs went up. Also, our taxes went up causing our costs to go even higher. Recently, our deli needed some plumbing work done. The plumber has raised his prices so, again, our costs have gone higher...and oh, I almost forgot to mention that we had to install a new overhead sound system to play all the 'jammin' elevator music that our customers have come to enjoy, and would you know it, the electronic prices have gone up which, in turn, have raised our expenses."

"You see, Mr. Plumber, Mr. Oil-Truck-Driver, Mr. Auto-Worker, and Mr. 'Electronic-Assembly-Line-Guy', for us to stay in business, we had to raise our prices. If you look down the fresh produce isle, however, we do have a special on celery..."

Now, I have just one more question: Why, pray tell, is a vote for Obama a good thing for the economic health of this country?