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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
I do agree that Obama clearly doesn't have all the answers and he's definitely making mistakes.
We have to realize that there are short term issues and long term issues, and we have to address them separately. Any ideas to create jobs short term get attacked because they don't fix the long term problem, and any idea to fix things long term are attacked because they don't create jobs right now.
One of the short term fixes is raising taxes on the rich. They have enjoyed historically low taxes for over a decade, even during the longest two wars in American history which is TOTALLY unprecedented for a country to lower taxes several times during war. So asking for an extra 1% or 2% is not all that much. Take that money and use it for infrastructure projects.
Taxes are raised and lowered based on needs all the time, so this is not that crazy of an idea. When we had a budget surplus, we lowered taxes, so taxes will come down when the country gets back on it's feet.
But that's the problem, when people bring up the tax debate, it opens up all this debate about food stamps and currency rigging and all sorts of things. We have to take it one thing at a time. Some short term, and some long term.
So my short term solution would be to raise taxes 2% on those making over 1$ million dollars and use that money for immediate infrastructure projects to get people back to work. Construction projects are great because they employ such a wide range of people, from unskilled laborers all the way up to engineers and scientists.
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Do you even know how many Americans make over $1million and how much "revenue" that tax increase will net? Hardly an answer to any of the problems except pissing off the millionaires, and getting some votes from the poor people. don't kid yourself, that is the goal... more votes.
Again real solutions:
How about 25% import taxes on raw materials that are easily available in this country, giving companies a zero tax on money they bring in from offshore accounts if they use the money to directly pay someone's salary. How about the US govt' matching $ for $ aany American company making anything here in the US by Americans for another "Buy American" media campaign. Us gov't has no money to spend on this? Redirect money from the bullshit wars we are in, or simply fix the fraud in all the entitlement programs to pay for it.
These are things to help americans. The real problem is there's no true patriotism anymore, even the saying of a pledge of allegiance to the US is being banned in schools.