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To: hamburglar
As am I. We will cut staff by at least 10% , RAISE prices ,and cut costs in every way we can to survive.

Would it help businesses like yours if the government laid out the following policies :

*Businesses would be free to write off capital purchases as quickly as they – not the feds – deem economical.

*America frightens foreign capital by taxing it at the industrial world's second-highest corporate tax rate. At 40 percent (35 federal, plus 5 percent average state and local tax), only Japan's 40.7 percent combined rate is higher. To become competitive and attract investment, this tax should be no higher than the European Union's 23.2 percent average.

*How about a five-year emergency suspension of all capital-gains taxes?" suggests Club for Growth president Pat Toomey. "No one has any capital gains! What could the Fed's cap-gains haul possibly be this year – maybe $1.50? There is nothing to lose and much to gain if it would stimulate investment and maybe even help the market establish a bottom.

*Letting anyone granted a new patent enjoy the revenues it generates for, say, five years tax-free.

*Offer "Emerald Cards" to millionaires everywhere. Without closing the Golden Door to those less fortunate, these high-end Green Cards would go instantly to any successful, law-abiding immigrant who could deposit $1 million in a U.S. bank, open a business, and hire at least five employees.

Just some ideas I got from others which I would have proposed had I been a legislator.
35 posted on 12/13/2008 9:50:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

You should propose these to your legislator. One bright spot in an otherwise dismal election is that we sent a Club for Growth backed freshman to the Pennsylvania House in a district which has been represented by Democrats only ever since its creation in 1969.


110 posted on 12/13/2008 8:39:01 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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