Wow, you are clueless about this.
No, that is not how people like ME, nor other companies I work with, determine the size of our workforces. Not even remotely close.
Companies operate based on risk and margin. (When it looked like Obama was going to be elected, everybody started slashing their staff and budgets to the bone; we knew what was coming.)
When taxes are low, we take risks. The tolerance of risk is based on the overhead we project, which includes taxes and regulations, AS WELL AS THE TARGET CLIENT'S ability to spend, which impacts what sort of margin I can expect to realize.
When you increase my risk, you impact my expected margin. In order to get that in balance, I have to cut costs, which means I have to reduce staff.
That, in turn, makes for an economy of fewer people/companies that have disposable income or growth reserves that are necessary to buy my products. It becomes a spiralling self-fulfilling prophecy.
And now, with Obama's big government and taxes, I will eventually be forced to get rid of the healthcare plan we provide our employees and force them on to a government plan. I'd be better off paying the $3,000 fine per employee, frankly.
So it's MEDICAID FOR EVERYONE! Yay.