YES! Leave the Bush tax cuts in place, and remove onerous restrictions, regulations, fees, etc etc, then get the EPA OUT OF the law making business. They are unelected, bypass congress altogether, and hinder businesses from operating. Lastly, make the unions negotiate and if they will not, go non-union. Those are just a few things.
Leaving the Bush tax cuts in place means a 35% marginal income tax rate for successful individuals, small businesses, and corporations. It also means taxing dividends at 35% before a corporation distributes them to shareholders who will then have to pay at least another 15% individual income tax. That’s not enough to make American business competitive with foreign competitors who have flat tax rates of 15%.
Keep in mind that if every INDIVIDUAL paid a flat 10% individual income tax, the IRS would collect more revenue than the current corporate and individual income taxes combined. To really make American businesses competitive, we should eliminate the Corporate income tax completely, and only tax income when it lands in a PERSON’s pocket and then tax at the 10% flat rate.
“Lastly, make the unions negotiate and if they will not, go non-union. “ Actually, the unions negotiated for everything they ever got. The reason they won outrageous wages and benefits from their employers was because they can legally shut-down the business — by striking, picketing, blocking access to the premises, etc. while the business is legally prohibited from firing employees for going on strike. What we need are changes to the law so it’s impossible to shut down a business and legal for an employer to simply fire all striking workers. Businesses have a large investment in trained workers, so they are unlikely to use this option lightly.