He needs to make all of America an empowerment zone.
This. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty we’re free at last!
What does this tell you?
If opportunity zones are based on per capita income levels for a city,counties,region or state this would not only affect big cities like Detroit but also small cities like mine in south GA.
This will improve the lives/prosperity of all Americans and and cause the democrat plantation to fall apart.
He will be pushing those democrat strongholds to comply to get the tax breaks.
No minimum wage=increased employment for teens.
School vouchers=no more indoctrination.
Right to work=break unions hold
If those places like Detroit,NYC,LA,SF,Chicago and Oakland don't adopt those standards, they would not get the tax breaks and people will move to where the jobs are. They will meet those standards or become irrelevant.
This will also allow the implementation of phase 2 of his plan, the fair tax. The economy would be improved and people would not fight the consumption tax as much, because their income will be improved and the income tax is removed.
I think this is a backdoor way of doing that.
I’m not sure I agree with the opportunity zones either, because I don’t want the government picking winners and losers.
It seems though, that Cain’s approach is to say if a state meets certain critera (right to work, eliminate minimum wage, school vouchers) then the area autmaticly becomes an opportunity zone.
What’s to keep say Alabama from doing that all over the state, and making the entire state an “opportunity zone”?
This the carrot/stick approach the fed govt. always uses to get the states to do something. I’m not sure I agree with it, but at least it’s not the federal govt picking winners or losers.