If wishes were horses, beggars would ride, and I would be offering tours of my stables with free riding sessions and lunch. Everyone who ever wanted a pony would have one and many of us would be doing very well boarding and caring for those ponies.
Also, if wishes were horses, tax cuts for the rich would create jobs.
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs, we would have effective zero unemployment. We would always have some people who weren't employed for a whole variety of reasons, but not because there were no jobs.
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs we'd be having a whole other discussion on the economy.
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs, companies large and small would be constantly looking for people to fill their jobs. Seriously looking. Corporations would likely be holding job fairs with free lunches and door prizes. The main way small companies would compete with large might be that the job didn't require moving to a large city.
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs, there would be no such thing as a minimum wage. Everyone offering a job would have to be aware of what others were offering and be ready to offer a package more desirable. There would be a constant upward pressure on salaries. Every sincere job enquiry would receive an immediate answer and if there were no match possibly the request to keep the name on file with emails for jobs that were a match for the person.
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs, we would likely have single payer health insurance. Companies would soon figure out that they would save money if they didn't have to maintain extra goodies in coverage for their employees. How about health insurance that included hair implants or cosmetic surgery? If everyone had a job who wanted one, health insurance would be decoupled from jobs pretty fast. Even part time jobs would have to include insurance if that was what it took to get the needed people. Get corporations behind single payer insurance and it would happen pretty fast.
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs, there would be some real immigration reform. There would be paths to citizenship for immigrants, both legal and current illegal. Companies would have to be forced to make sure they had legal employees with high penalties being levied for mistakes. How many companies would stand still for someone's undercutting their prices and demand for workers by using illegal labor?
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs, we wouldn't be hearing about deficits. There wouldn't be any. As full employment became a reality with constant pressure to offer better wages and working conditions, the government would have the income to begin paying down of our national debt. Hint- full employment at good wages makes for wealthy government and good government services.
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs, Social Security would be secure until something awesome like 2375 or so. Social Security payments could be raise, heck, maybe doubled. Maybe retirement age at 60, 55 if medically recommended.
More pressure to automate jobs that can be done by machines. More jobs making said machinery.
If tax cuts for the created made jobs and brought on full employment, MickeyD's might have to add automation because there weren't enough people to do all their work. They would be going for better jobs. All jobs would be raised with personal service becoming a real profession. Farm w orkers would have to be treated much better and paid wages attractive enough to get people to do that kind of work.
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs, we would already have good starts on reworking our infrastructure. Smart energy networks would be going up all over. High speed rail lines would be crossing large parts of the country. Massive carbon sequestration would be already underway and spreading. Windmills would abound. Contractors would be installing solar panels on houses as fast as could get materials and the people to do the work. Wouldn't it be nice to have a government with enough tax money to do what we need done?
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs, we'd be well on the way to paying down the national debt. Less than 1% unemployment with constant upward pressure on wages would fill the federal coffers pretty well, thank you very much. The Fed would be having glory days fighting their favorite- inflation.
If we, in the process, managed to cut out the benefits of offshoring, that would make more jobs here with more money for everybody and more benefits and more new inventions from those who weren't weighed down with the awful burden of having to figure out how to get their work done in other countries.
A lot of this is bluesky and pie in the sky, but most of it is actually doable if we were to get rid of the idea that wealthy individuals and corporations deserve the most and best of everything and everyone else deserves less and worse. The idea that it is the fault of anyone less than wealthy is bullshit and should be treated with raucous laughter and appropriate noises.
The whole idea of the Bush Billionaire Bailout was to create jobs. (?) That was 10 years ago.