The New York Post asks, “Why aren’t businesses hiring?”
Because they don’t know what’s next. The small shop owners, mid-size company budget planners and corporate strategists — they all look ahead and see nothing but questions and worries. What will the massive new health care bill cost? Will there be cap-and-trade taxes after the Copenhagen summit this week? What domestic priority will Obama push next?
If you don’t know what a new employee will cost you in 2010, the last thing you want to do is hire one.
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See also, ability of FDR’s “bold, persistent experimentation” to endlessly prolong the Depression.
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