you are relentless haha
ok in the spirit of debate - take an example many getbiggers can probably relate to:
a young 15yr old skinny kid wants to put on some muscle to impress the girl down the road. he buys the mag & sees the latest muscletech ads with phil/jay or whoever saying you will put on 20 lbs if you buy the latest mass stack range. great! the only problem is that all this costs a decent amount of $ for a young dude & he & his family are very tight on money and cant afford it.
so he gets a part time job to earn the money to pay for these products. and on a very micro level this demonstrates how business and advertising can create demand (as well as redistributing)
advertising often creates this desire that wasnt there previously - whether that be to buy the latest crappy supplement, a new 50 inch tv when their current one works fine, the latest fashion etc. - that results in people workin harder to earn the income to buy them
in large part people have for thousands of years lived based on needs. what businesses, marketing and advertising have and can do is create this desire to earn more in order to purchase these products that will 'make them happy'. hence they can create demand
your assuming that if the kid didnt get enthused about getting a better body that he wouldnt have found some other reason why he ought to make some money.
... but lets go with that assumption. marketing caused an increase in motivation to consume and caused an increase in aggreggate production for an individual.
the argument is about tax breaks. which is better for the economy, breaks on the poor and middle class or breaks on big business? you can argue that if taxes are too the point where profits are eliminated and marketing is impossible then we would experience a decrease in total economic activity. but the taxes arent nearly that level. marketing is as widely present influential as it has ever been and companies are still making big profits. on top of that the ceos are getting paid 20 times what the entire advertisement budget. and your hoping that if you give them a tax break they will use that money to expand, market, invest in reseacrh and development but you have no guarantee it will do that.
now lets compare that situation to the one with the poor and middle class. you raise their taxes, the have to spend less. you decrease their taxes, they always spend more. no guesswork here
