British politician and commentator Jacob Rees-Mogg frequently shares his political and economic observations. One of his most noteworthy findings is that employers may become much less inclined to hire more people if they are required to deduct taxes from their national income.
Consider an employer to be a gardener caring for a beautiful garden. In addition to having a lot of seeds, the gardener needs water to help them grow into plants. Removing a portion of that water before it reaches the roots is what national income tax is. The gardener's first concern is whether there will be enough money left over to care for new seedlings, even though the water (taxes) may be used to fund public services.
According to Rees-Mogg, employers may be reluctant to hire more people if they observe that a portion of their income is going straight to taxes rather than being used for employee benefits or business expansion. They have less water available to help those seeds grow into healthy plants (new employees), not because they lack the seeds (funds).
This viewpoint draws attention to a common conflict between the private sector's incentives for job creation and the government's need for revenue. It implies that employment-boosting policies may need to take into account how tax burdens impact employers' inclination to hire more workers.