Your right, they are completely
out of touch. They also think our pockets are bottomless. If they would stop trying to find ways to reach deeper
into them and do things to improve the employment picture, things would be better.
That's very generalized, I
agree. NAFTA, excessive regulation and taxation drove many companies offshore. They need to be attracted back to the
US by providing a climate where they can earn a profit while paying a decent wage. Punishing the large corporations
for being large corporations is self destructive. Entice well paying jobs back to the US and many things will
improve right away, including the ability of millions to afford health care.
Taxation is a problem at the
individual level as well. The government does not create jobs, consumerism creates jobs. Every dollar the government
takes is that much less for the economy and it is strangling our ability to compete on the world stage. Look at even
something as small as my business. A 35% reduction in my tax burden would allow me to hire another person, that
would be a salesperson. Because other companies would also have more money they would also be hiring and buying
technology services from people like me. In the end, it would mean more products bought and sold and more people put
to work. Tax revenue would actually increase!
Not that I think the government needs more money. In reality, our
government has become too large and sucks too much money for entitlement programs both at the individual level and
the corporate level. I do not believe any business should be bailed out. Let them fail. It may hurt on the short
term but the well run companies would be that much stronger in the long term. It also would reduce our tax burden,
putting more money into the economy. People should not believe they have a right to indefinate support. They need to
realize it is a helping hand to get them back on their feet. And it should only come with requirements for job
training and hunting.
All that would lower unemployment and contribute to the ability of more people to pay
their own way. Then we can talk about who really needs help and who doesn't. It takes too long, right? Wrong! The
democrats were going to start taxing us right away, which would have slowed the economy more, but not provide
services for several years. My way would not add taxes, which would reduce jobs, it would increase jobs by cutting
taxes. The time we could start providing medical services would come a lot sooner and be better funded.
I don't
believe the government should be in control of our health care, they have demonstrated their incompetence too many
times already. That's another detail to work out later.
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