I don’t want Obama’s construction welfare payment bill, but I don’t see why it should be a “threat” that Congress might actually have to work for more than half of February.
I’d like to see $30 Billion spent to modernize our Electric Grid, as I heard Steve Forbes recommend on Sean Hannity’s radio program last month [he was citing a non-profit (Libertarian?) group who had supplied the idea].
I’d like to see the corporate tax from 35% to at most 30% but don’t see it as likely that it will happen. We’d probably see tax revenues peak with a rate of 28% (according to the Wall Street Journal), but when our tax policy seem to be determined by “fairness” according to the One why should I expect a rational rate for this recession? I’d actually prefer a reduction of the corporate rate to at most 25% (maybe even lower — 20%) as right now is not the time to be trying to maximize tax revenue.
Things I’d like to see that are reasonable enough to actually garner bi-partisan support:
Allow a $10,000 IRS deduction each for Interest and Dividends on the 1040 form. This would encourage middle class investment and savings. Good for the stock market and banks’ long range health.
Raise the one-time death benefit (established, I think, in 1957) from $255 to something that would actually pay for a minimal funeral, or three months basic living costs, as was the original intent of the benefit.
In addition to allowing a deduction from taxes for the elderly and the blind, also allow one for the totally disabled, as they are often more difficult to care for than the blind. [It would have been a lot easier to care for someone blind, than the last three years of my husbands life with Alzheimers.]