The Real Stimulus
InsidePolitics, from the blog monroerising.com, posted a story on the Stimulus and Eric Massa. There was a great video with the story including an interview with Tom Reed who’s running against Rep. Massa. Even though Massa claims the bill was good for us I think we all know better.
Even the AP is reported that the stimulus jobs were way over inflated. There’s been reports of double counting and mis-counting. People have used the stimulus for things it shouldn’t have been.
This goes back to the ideas that government is not the answer. Government is the problem. The real solution is for government to focus on things like encouraging investments by eliminating capital gains taxes. China has done this and many other countries where our manufacturing jobs have been shipped to. When states have done this they have attracted jobs and people.
Another real stimulus effort would be to reduce business tax rates to 12.5%, which is the lowest tax rate of Ireland. We need to send the message to the world we want your business to be in the US. We need to spur job creation.
Finally, we need to have a balanced budget and eliminate earmarks. We have a society where we measure Congressman by how much they bring back to the district. It’s time we start measuring people that reprsent us by the quality of their decisions.
