A crazy idea is apparently sweeping through the minds of those brilliant fat cats down in Washington: what if capitalists were rewarded for hiring workers? I guess we are setting aside the idea that businesses are already rewarded for hiring workers, because workers create the "things" that businesses "sell." But hey! There are a number of "ideas" floating around. Here is one: "For example, hiring a worker might cost a small business $50,000 annually. But with the tax credit, the cost would fall to $42,350 in the first year, and then be $44,900 the next year. After that, the cost would return to $50,000." And that's when the slight rise in employment would be devastated by mass layoffs. Hilariously, some people are apparently calling this "corporate welfare." You know what is corporate welfare? Not denying massive tax credits to all the corporations that kicked thousands of employees to the curb during the recession. Also then the Times quotes experts, such as an attorney from the "National Federation of Independent Business." Yes, America's third-biggest lobbying outfit, according to Fortune-which spends most of its time lobbying against "the death tax." Interestingly, this outfit scoffs at the idea, even as their latest survey claims that "The 'job generating machine' is still in reverse."