Posted on 11/12/2014 5:20:59 AM PST by Moseley
1.Restore Obamacare cuts to Medicare. Democrats cut an estimated $716 billion from Medicare to finance the subsidies in Obamacare. Republicans should reverse these Medicare cuts and restore the Medicare Advantage program.
When low-information voters believe liberal lies, Democrats win elections. Sadly, it doesn’t matter what is true, only what the voters believe. In the Delaware U.S. Senate race, freshman Democrat Chris Coons ran ads of voters praising Coons for stopping the tea party from cutting Medicare. That ad also praised Coons as someone who tells the truth. Of course the tea party never wanted to cut Medicare. President Obama and Harry Reid actually did that.
Should Republicans repeal Obamacare? Can they? Since $716 billion was taken out of Medicare to fund Obamacare, Obamacare would collapse after Republicans fight to protect Medicare. Oh, darn. That means Republicans could defund and repeal Obamacare while destroying the liberal lie that they want to cut Medicare.
2.Pass Ronald Reagan’s Tax Credit for Newly-Hired Employees. One of the disastrous effects of the Obama Economy is that tens of millions of Americans do not have recent employment experience and also suffer bad credit (increasingly considered in employment decisions). Employers are reluctant to take a chance on someone who hasn’t held a job in three or four years or more.
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Thanks. They didn’t think creating millions of jobs and strapping a booster rocket to the economy was significant enough.
What Ronald Reagan used successfully to help pull the USA out of Jimmy Carter’s economic black hole... not important enough.
Wiping out the USA’s debt to China — and eliminating China’s chokehold over US foreign policy and military check on China’s expansion.... not important enough.
Stopping the total disintegration of the rule of law by impeaching lower-level civil officials from the IRS and Veterans Administration... too little of an issue.
That’s their concern.
On the substance, your article seems quite good. I especially like your idea of expensing capital improvements for tax purposes. And IMHO the feds shouldn’t be in education; at the rate they’re going local school boards may lose their legitimacy. Khan Academy has shown us how it can be done; some homeschoolers claim it’s no harder to homeschool than it is to help kids with their homework.
The real crying need is to delegitimate the conceit that mothers and dads aren’t crucial to society. Dads need to be recognized providers, and supported as possible in that position - and mothers need to be able to stay home and do the real work - which is raising children. Uncle Sam as sugar daddy delegitimates father ood, and a Department of Education dilutes the true mission of the federal government, which is foreign policy and defense. The housing market in Northern Virgina needs to collapse due to the elimination of a lot of federal “mission creep."
It is 9:09 AM, and I already got invited to join a conference this Saturday in Ashburn, Virginia, in part to discuss this list of proposals, and based on publication of this article.
But those proposals are just not big enough.
The GOP is somehow completely blind to China.
A massive communist, one-race giant which now produces more than America produces, and which we buy a (majority?) now of everything from.
GOP wake up. Someone needs to support America once again.
GOP stand up, and do your jobs.
The gummit shouldn’t have a say on hiring people. The market will handle that w/o the tax deduction. Lower taxes for everyone not just employers.
Pray America wakes up
I must intervene here and clarify: two of the three main editors at AT are NOT YOUNG KIDS at all. One is kind of young. The editor who nixes some stuff that should be published (IMO) is NOT the young one normally. The kids you refer to are mostly in charge of the technical end, not the content end.
Cut funding for the IRS as punishment for their targeting of conservatives. (There is an interesting (good) side effect of this also, if you cut the personnel.)
True, but every good idea, big and small, should be pursued.
Cut taxes across the board, but we do need to stimulate hiring.
The there is the issue of getting to the virtuous (low rate) side of the Laffer Curve. I have a pet theory for accomplishing this:
Yes, that would absolutely be the case - except for the effect of the rebate provision on the taxpayer who has paper gains which he can elect to realize. The taxpayer, aware of the rebate provision, would make the self-fulfilling prophecy that capital gains realizations would soar because if it did soar, the tax rate net of rebate would be much less than previously.
It is a mechanism whereby the market can take on the risk and gain the reward associated with tax policy. After a little experience with this proposed regime, the move could be made to slash the nominal cap gains tax rate down to, or below, the effective rate of the cap/rebate policy. This would be good policy because the cap gains tax is pernicious, and detrimental to revenue in the long run. It should actually be repealed.
Tax cuts across the board always stimulates hiring. The gummit should not do the picking and choosing of hiring.
Cut tax rats across the board.
Eliminate the capital gains tax and cut the corporate tax rate.
Cut the payroll tax (we’ll give them a raise in the cap.)
Enterprise zones and urban homesteading.
I was planning a part 2 previously, and I will include all these ideas. If I can figure out how to give people credit, or you want to send me your name or more information to Contact@JonMoseley.com, I will attribute your ideas to you.
Well, it isn’t that the writing is poor. I have had nearly 100 articles published at American Thinker. It isn’t that I can’t write or write appropriately.
The problem is that the editors at American Thinker DON’T UNDERSTAND what experts are saying in submitted articles.
Why not just write articles yourselves? Because you want expertise from outside.
Then you don’t LISTEN to the expertise offered — with no compensation — by experts who submit columns.
If you don’t understand that the accelerated depreciation rules for equipment, tools, vehicles, and such are a massive, monstrous burden on business and that eliminating those rules would unleash a nationwide shopping spree by business.....
.... listen to those who DO understand it.
There is no single thing that the GOP Congress could do that would put as many millions of people to work.
And being very simple, it would be much more likely to succeed than actions which would require multiple intermediate steps, so the effect might be uncertain.
If someone brings to American Thinker things that you don’t know, ISN’T THAT WHAT YOU WANT?
If the only thing you have is what you already know in the inner circle of a publication, then your knowledge base is limited.
If people bring you information and expertise you don’t have — and again, for free — shouldn’t that be what you are TRYING to achieve?
But if you are limited only by what you personally understand, then you won’t get very far.
Ronald Reagan’s tax changes created the largest economic boom in American history.
That’s not big enough for you?
People give you their expertise — for free — using their time and effort, and then have their expertise dissed by people who don’t know anything about the topic.
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