Posted on 01/21/2011 3:05:01 AM PST by Scanian
Democrats run Obama's home state of Illinois. That state's response to the profoundly serious economic problems facing so many states has been a massive increase in taxes. Republicans in neighboring states have an opportunity to showcase at the state level how their party would handle our nation's economic crisis. The landslide last November gave Republicans complete control of five state governments in the Great Lakes Region: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Republicans in those states not only control the governorships and both houses of the state legislatures, but the state legislative majorities are big, and Republicans won many secondary statewide elective offices as well. Now, more than any time in a generation, Republicans can actually implement their agenda, limited only by their political courage.
What should these governors and legislatures do? They should act in concert, not in competition, and create an oasis of business-friendly government in a region which desperately needs a true recovery. One first and vital step, as I have written before, is for all these five states to enact Right to Work laws. The cost of labor drops at once when forced union membership is prohibited. Business also has a great deal more flexibility in employing its workforce without union contracts and labor bureaucrats. When labor is cheap, business is more likely to hire people.
Then these states should consider and, if possible, enact a general reduction across the board for all taxes which affect businesses. The cuts need not be extreme, but these should be for every tax rate. Business should know that for every activity in which costs had been calculated before, that cost will now be less because of lower tax rates. If the five Republican states act in unison, then the regional climate will change.
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I love this.
Add the FairTax to the picture and watch over 14 trillion rush right back into this country, combined with corporations falling all over themselves to buy up as much commercial real estate they can to move business and manufacturing back to the states.
It won’t have a snowballs chance in hell in the current administration but start now on greasing the skids for after 2012 so it can be enacted as soon as possible. That one move would be the end to career politicians because they would not have the mallet of the tax code to manipulate our society any longer.
Now, more than any time in a generation, Republicans can actually implement their agenda, limited only by their political courage.
Although I did manage to vote for him, I am not yet a dedicated fan of my ostensibly "R" governor.
Ping for your Michigan list?
Not the one I remember lugging around back in school... But, I quibble.
He might not prove to be a superstar but he surely represents an improvement over “Governor Dimples.”
It was just a year or so ago that I saw her on one of the Sunday talk shows arguing that she should be considered as a presidential candidate because she came here when she “was four years old.”
Such chutzpah. She runs her state into the ground and she wants the Constitution changed to accommodate her ridiculous ambitions.
Maybe I had an abridged version but mine was about Bible-sized, c1975.
:)
Ok, when you put it that way...
Yes, I remember when she and Ahnold were being considered as the poster people for amending the Constitution.
But, she was right about one thing, I am "blown away." (I can't find the clip, but in her first term she promised that "in five years, you will be blown away." Supposedly, she meant "blown away" by the great things that were about to unfold after the "dark ages" of John Engler)
If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.
...”in five years, you’re gonna be blown away!”
Yep, she sure blew it didn’t she? I can’t believe how many of her fans still want to believe how wonderful a governor she was.
“Cool Cities”, eh?...more like sanctuary cities.
She was the MI Attorney General before all of this and because she’s a lawyer, I think that she thinks she’s gotten away with whatever “shennanigans” that took place on her watch. She’s smart...She’s ‘Barack Obama smart’> Smart in a bad way!
Maybe now she’ll have the time to take ol’ Uncle Buck’s advice when he said, “Here’s a quarter. Take it downtown and give it to a rat and have him gnaw that thing offa yer face!”
LOL! Thanks, equaviator.
Granmole and Mike Cox are both products of the Ed McNamara political machine. My only consolation with Snyder is that he is not Cox.
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