I don't have the bandwidth to respond to every economic analysis, every percentage, every assumption in all the articles, columns, and data points being linked to this board.

All of them have exactly the same underlying assumption: that money that is not taxed, that is left in the private sector, is not going to help the economy, while money that goes to the government, and is distributed where they can get the most votes out of it, will help the economy.

That was the essence of my reply, and I'm sorry it wasn't clearer.

I couldn't give a rat's ass about businesses operating at 75 percent of capacity or not. The real point of your post is that money left in the hands of corporations or businesses or the wealthy will not do the economy any good. Will go to waste. Will not be spent. Will not be spent "right." Never mind about the moral right to it--I gave up on that approach a long time ago.

How will making more capital available be an incentive for businessess to buy more capital equipment and hire more workers when they're not getting full use of what they already have?

How do you know what a business will do with more money? Maybe they won't build a new building. Maybe they will diversify their products into new areas. Maybe put it into research. Maybe pay off debt. Maybe pay dividends to stockholders. Sure as hell they aren't going to stuff it in a mattress. What business is it of yours?

How will putting that same capital into the hands of politicians create more real jobs? Add actual productivity to the nation? You know exactly what they'll do with it: throw it out of their limo windows at the voters in return for their votes.

Try to teach a stupid man to fish, and he will lose patience with you and walk away.

Give a stupid man a fish, and he will think you have done him a huge favor.

Tell him to come back for his fish each day, and you own him.