ATT lays off hundreds before Christmas

[_deacon blues]

Companies, big and small, need to realize loyalty is a two-way street. Should businesses be responsible to their employees? Should employees be loyal to their employers? I'm old enough to have lived through Reaganomics, and I don't believe it's a silver bullet. I've never lived through a depression, but it seems there are still people who are living in a depression.

[_Kevin Graham]

I'm saying generally speaking that tax increases increase government revenues, but there are levels of taxes where you will get decreasing marginal gains from increases because they depress economic activity and, beyond that, you can collapse your tax receipts by strangling commerce.

So you're talking about the Laffer curve, which I agree with. But the question is, how high do taxes need to be before that happens? I think they'd have to be much higher than they are now. The issue here I think is lowering taxes so low that you stand no chance of balancing the budget, let alone bringing down debt.

Clinton also benefited greatly from the best boom economy in decades. You can't miss that as part of the picture.

Well obviously, but the high taxes obviously led to increased revenues as well.

[_subgenius]

We’re adding people in many areas where we’re seeing increased customer demand for products and services....

As a result of decreasing work volume and to increase efficiency, we are consolidating some call center work currently done at one of our locations in Kansas City into another company location in San Antonio.

Interesting. I didn’t figure that call center work was so geographically limited.

Because you figure that 2 locations are the same cost as 1 location?

[_canpakes]

Because you figure that 2 locations are the same cost as 1 location?

You overlooked the point. But to your comment about cost, the number of locations doesn't tell us much about, say, overall lease costs, for example.

You knew that already, right?

[_subgenius]

Because you figure that 2 locations are the same cost as 1 location?

You overlooked the point. But to your comment about cost, the number of locations doesn't tell us much about, say, overall lease costs, for example.

You knew that already, right?

Given the context of your comment and by what you quoted, what was the point?
Surely you weren't conflating the point about "in many areas" with the point about call centers?

[_canpakes]

Surely you weren't conflating the point about "in many areas" with the point about call centers?

Surely you didn’t overlook my second post? : )