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If the bonuses continue next year or if companies create jobs here or if

this law actually does shrink the deficit I will be the loudest cheerleader. I suspect what's going on is more PR than economics. I think it was AT&T that announced $1,000 bonuses for 20,000 people a few days ago. Total cost is $20MM. Their advertising budget is 3.3 BILLION dollars (See link). Seems to me they just bought some great PR and political advertising for a very low price. Who wants to bet the bonuses are NOT repeated next year?

(In response to this post by TomKazanski)

Link: http://adage.com/article/advertising/big-spenders-facts-stats-top-200-u-s-advertisers/299270/

Posted: 12/26/2017 at 6:55PM

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The list of companies giving bonuses is growing rapidly -- TomKazanski 12/26/2017 12:19PM

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Fwiw, my response below was my poor reading. I thought your response to -- Shenhoo 12/27/2017 09:24AM

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More money in my pocket which I've stated at least 3 times in this thread. ** -- SokurHoo83 12/27/2017 12:29PM

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It’s almost like companies announce bonuses in December or something. -- WahooRQ 12/26/2017 1:03PM

Gee, I never heard of that : -) ** -- NJHoo 12/26/2017 10:29PM

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