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Harry Reid: 'Millionaire Job Creators Are Like Unicorns' - Harry Rein - Fox Nation

Harry Reid: 'Millionaire Job Creators Are Like Unicorns' - Harry Rein - Fox Nation

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Reid: GOP's millionaire job creators are imaginary like 'unicorns'

By Josiah Ryan - 12/12/11 02:29 PM ET

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) suggested on Monday that millionaires who create jobs are a mere figment of Republicans' imaginations.

"Millionaire job creators are like unicorns,” said Reid from the Senate floor. “They are impossible to find and don't exist."

Reid's frustration has grown in past weeks as Republicans have repeatedly and overwhelmingly blocked almost every fragment of President Obama's jobs package brought to the floor because Democrats have attempted to pay for them by raising taxes on millionaires. Republicans say they oppose that tax because it would hamper job creation.

But Reid said Monday morning that there was no evidence of a correlation between taxes on the wealthy and jobs.

"Republicans say the richest of the rich in our country … shouldn't contribute more to put our economy back on track," said Reid. "They call our plan time after time a 'tax on job creators,' and I say so-called job creators because … every shred of evidence contradicts this red herring.”

The majority leader concluded that most of Republicans' "fictitious millionaire job creators" are "hedge fund managers or wealthy lawyers that don't do much hiring."



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Harry should know all about unicorns. Obamas green jobs that never came to light are now covered in scandals. If you are an Obama bundler…you can become an instant millionaire. Never got a job from a poor person Harry.

http://biggovernment.com/pschweizer/2011/12/12/obamas-green-initiatives-it-pays-big-to-be-an-obama-bundler/BY LISA on 12/12/2011 at 14:58
Harry is right. The rich and the major oil and wall street companies have had tremendous tax breaks for a very long time. What has resulted…Less Jobs…More income to Big Oil, wall street and the rich. The Republicians fantasize about real jobs and block everything and anything that will produce them. One is foreced to vote democrat to SAVE the country.BY ROB 22 on 12/12/2011 at 15:12
All of my hedge fund buddies hire atleast one secretary so don't tell me they don't create jobs. The secretary may pay more in taxes than the hedge fund manager but atleast she has a minimum wage job.BY VOTE DEMSOUT 2010/12 on 12/12/2011 at 15:17
Harry's an [***]hat. He's a millionaire, sponging off his position. I bet he's never created a job in his life. Get a real job, Harry.BY RAOUL on 12/12/2011 at 15:34
Harry is suffering from dementia. If Chuck Schumer stopped writing the scripts for old Harry, he would be standing in a corner somewhere playing with his own spit. The people of Nevada should be so proud.BY JOE ADISON on 12/12/2011 at 15:35
Harry is right. Not every single millionaire is a sacred "job creater". There is a difference between joe manager of a small company and snooki from the Jersey Shore. There is a way in our tax code to carve out tax cuts from small businessesand only increase revinues on millionares who do not run their own business.BY BELLA on 12/12/2011 at 15:42
Steve Jobs, the late great CEO of Apple, with over 46,000 full time employees, was unavailable for comment on the jaw dropping stupidity of Harry Reid.BY GRIFFIN on 12/12/2011 at 15:55
Why is it the dim dems have so much trouble believing the most of the fat cat's on Wall Street are dems, you know something like the old New Jersey gov'nr Corzine, and so many others, man I guess they will never get a grip.BY REDLINE on 12/12/2011 at 15:57
If taxing the top 1 percent of Americans would kill jobs, and they are responsible for job creation then why are we NOT at 100 percent employment? They have been getting huge tax cuts for 10 years now and to no avail in the employment numbers!BY $12 HOUR WORKER on 12/12/2011 at 16:03
I see Harriett is off her medication again…BY JJ SOTERIA on 12/12/2011 at 16:04

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