[SDShack]

“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.

[misterrob]

They wouldn’t win. Too many Americans think that they can have big defense, entitlements and debt service all at the same time.

[Red Dog #1]

I like your list, expect I would change point #2 to require a two thirds "super majority" of congress for all spending, tax and debt authorizations. Sometimes debt is appropriate, but there should be a one heck of a high bar for it. Sometimes even California has a good idea.

[bert]

Republicans can do nothing. They lost.