“See? The budget has been cut to the bone,” says the New York Times liberal Democrat scumbag columnist, “So raising taxes is the only option left.”
“See? The budget has been cut to the bone,” says the New York Times liberal Democrat scumbag columnist, “So raising taxes is the only option left.”
That’s the Dumbcrat response and it is exactly the wrong solution because all it does is kill economic growth which kills business, which kills jobs, which kills revenue, which kills consumers and on and on and on.
Raising taxes just proves Einstein correct when he said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Everything government should do should be focused on growing business and hence the economy. Here is what I have been saying for weeks the Repubs need to do.
1. Repeal the Porkulus and take the $700 billion and reform Health Care, including Medicare & Medicaid using a private co-op type system.
2. Pass a balanced budget amendment to stop the rampant deficit spending that is killing our dollar. This will stop all the talk from foreign powers about a world currency. If we don’t control spending, it will only be a matter of time before China divorces itself from buying our debt, and that will turn the current recession into the Great Depression II.
3. Focus all future stimulus on job creation by stimulating manufacturing inside this country again, not outsourcing. Do this by reducing regulation (no cap & tax), business taxes, and business costs (see health care above).
4. To facilitate business and job growth, focus government spending on infrastructure upgrade and not welfare. We need to improve power creation and transmission, roads, bridges, rail lines, harbors, dams, street layout, urban spawl and traffic congestion, etc. This is where a viable energy plan comes in. All this is necessary to improve business productivity that is required to improve profitability and compete against low cost 3rd world economies.
If Repubs would run on this, they would win handily.
None of this stuff is complicated. Even a GED holder such as myself could do a better job than Berkley educated Granholm.
If you’re going to close a prison, don’t accept prisoners from a state that can’t afford to pay you to keep them. (not to mention that many of their welfare families will follow)
If your state police are headquartered in a donated building for a $1 per year lease, keep them there. Don’t get democrat donors to spend $45 million to build a new HQ that will require a $3 million per year lease.
If you raise cigarette taxes so high that people start to quit, don’t act shocked when revenue falls off.
..and it's not even a column, (i.e., the usual NYT leftard columnists Rich, Kristof, Herbert, Collins, Krugman, Dowd), it's a "supposed" actual straight "news story.".
Which we did in 2007......and it didn't work.
this is what we all will be hearing from the obamanation unless we can get him out of office.
They’ve already raised taxes in MI. They did it in fall of 07 and it just made things worse. They raised the state income tax back up to the level it was before Engler came into office. I left the following summer because they were talking about jacking up taxes again.
Yeah, so how's that liberal-run union thing working out for ya?