Connie Mack: High Unemployment a Reason to Pass Tax Cuts

Rick Scott is not the only Florida Republican taking aim at the White House for the nations continuing unemployment problems. U.S. Rep. Connie Mack blasted the policies of the Obama administration on Friday morning, not long after new reports indicated that unemployment continued to grow across the nation, rising to 9.6 percent in August, the highest it has been since May.

Despite some encouraging news earlier this week about the growing strength of our manufacturing sector, todays unemployment numbers remind us that we have a long way to go before our economy fully recovers from this recession, said Mack.And todays numbers also remind us that the liberal tax-and-spend policies of the last 18 months have done little to get our economy moving again.

The Obama administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress continue to wrongly believe that spending billions of dollars and implementing one of the largest tax hikes on the American people at the end of the year will grow our economy, added Mack. They continue to create uncertainty and worry among business owners, who are reluctant to invest in or grow their companies.

Mack closed with a plea to extend tax cuts backed by President George W. Bush earlier in the decade.

We all know the key to job creation is to keep taxes low and burdensome regulations in check, said Mack.Congress can start by extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, which will allow American families to keep more of their hard-earned money.