Thursday - February 12, 2009

New Ann

Dear Ann writes about the stimulus bill in her latest column, Goodbye America! It was fun while it lasted. It’s a fairly gentle essay, given her style.

One of the comment leavers, Ralph from Texas, mentions how to make a counter stimulus that could save the country. And save it tens, maybe hundreds of billions at the same time.

1. cut corporate taxes to 0%------ lowers costs, increases competition, increases production, increase jobs, increases consumer spending from those and generates tax revenues from the sales taxe
2. cut capital gains to 0 %- encourages selling, stimulating economic growth for those engaged in the exchange of those assets, perhaps creating jobs, encouraging domestic consumption thereby generating tax revenue
3. cut estate taxes to 0%- similar results from cutting capital gains rate to 0%
4. Net loser - governmental spending- tuff chit here’s your budget -stay within it or we put someone in who will

Way to go Ralph. That’s the common sense approach that only us non-bureaucrats can see. Eliminate taxes that discourage business. Eliminate taxes that discourage investment. Eliminate the estate tax, because it’s just plain unfair. That money has already been taxed 3 or 4 times at least. Don’t spend more than you take in, duh. And the best part? Smaller government. Not that anyone is ever going to listen to that. Ever. At any level, from the Federal right down to the Condo Association level.

I’ve held my nose and watched the NYC news for the past few weeks. The latest fear-o-meme (should that be a fear-o-moan? Which would be an scary idea that seems attractive at first, but you realize it smells in a way you can’t quite identify?) has been “Oh noes! Without the OStimulus, all the teachers, cops, and fireman are gonna be laid off!! We’re all gonna die!!”

No. New York City has a budget that is out of control, by billions. Bloated government, bloated spending. Beyond belief. 8 million Sienfelds taking and taking. Ralph from Texas could fix that problem in a second: snip snip snip. But that isn’t going to happen. All the government jobs will be saved by the Ostimulus. Which is exactly what Ann is writing in her column.

Suck the pockets of your great-grandchildren dry to pay for ever more government workers now. And the rest of us can go jump.

Dear Washington:
Dear Trenton:
Dear Albany:
Dear Mayor Bloomberg:

Sod off.

The way to save the nation is to let the nation be the nation. Get government off our backs and out of our pockets. Yes, in the short run that would make things worse. And if harshly implemented it means people would die. But government needs to be trimmed. Obama was wrong with his “don’t ask if government was too big or too small, instead ask if it works” idea. Government is almost always too big, and it almost never works. So trim the heck out of it, take away most of the jobs, and leave them as an advisory board. Every single law now has a 10 year sunset provision, and that same provision just got tacked onto every law passed in the last 50 years. Every. Single. One. Too many laws. Too many rules. Too many taxes. Too many government employees. Too much government. A lot of it has to go. Let’s start with half, and then cut some more.

Posted by Drew458     on 02/12/2009 at 09:25 AM   
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