Posted on 01/11/2014 7:36:55 AM PST by Kaslin
Agree
Using pure numbers, small business creates far more jobs, and faster, than does big business. Therefore, to create jobs and lower employment, government needs to do three things.
1) Strongly reduce government caused factors inhibiting new and existing small businesses. This means paperwork, regulation, taxes, and the ability to hire, fire, and manage production without being pestered.
2) Eliminate incentives for businesses to outsource, as well as inhibitions against mining and drilling, as well as domestic resource production not for export.
3) Create massive government procurement contracts for new industries, open to competition. This includes things like mass production of thin sheet aerogel insulation, and an enormous hemp industry, limited to marginal farmland, producing vast amounts of high quality products.
For example, the US paper and pulp industry grosses about $45 billion annually. Hemp makes a much better quality paper than does pulp.
This doesn’t seem that difficult to me. If the government would give businesses a tax credit of say 20% of the salary of each person they employed, then that should be enough incentive to get the hiring restarted. The value of human labor has dropped precipitously as automation is capable of doing more of the tasks it used to take humans to do. While in general, this can be considered a good thing, it has resulted in a significant rise in the unemployment of relatively unskilled labor. If the tax credit is such that an unskilled worker is more affordable than the automation, then the employment opportunities for such workers is significantly more attractive.
No. The most compassionate they can be is to completely remove themselves and their regulations from it. Let capitalism, supply and demand fix it.
Yep, THIS should be the focus of the 2014 elections, because it is the ONE issue that directly affects every single family in this nation!
The first prerequisite to securing our rights is make sure power does not consolidate. Power consolidated in Washington DC a hundred years ago, and will remain there until the 17th amendment is repealed.
Yep. The 17th is far more insidious than most people give it credit for.
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