The democrat president, the democrat controlled congress, and the republican minority have been playing the political game of taking care of their special interest groups for so long that they have no idea of how to deal with the realities of this economic crises we are currently in. Their bail-out plans, their stimulus plan, and their budget plan, is proof of how out of touch they really are.
So, let me explain how our American economy works. Part A, we (the American people) by products from people who make products. When we (the American people) don't have money we can't buy products. So, it really doesn't matter how much money you give to banks, auto companies, or any other businesses if we (the American people) can't afford their products. Part B, high interest rates (like high taxes) drastically reduces our (we the American people) spending. As hard as it might seem to credit card companies by having a lower interest rate people would be able to pay more towards their debt, likewise, it is hard for some in our government (not we the American people) to understand that by lowering taxes will actually create for the government more money. Part C. Government funded projects (shovel ready and infrastructure projects) will not create permanent jobs. The US government is already the biggest employer in America and it has never been profitable, making it bigger won't make it better or profitable. The money we give the government, in the form of taxes, is completely mismanaged to the continuous detriment of our economy. It won't cost trillions of dollars. Naturally, democrats and republicans won't like it because trillions of your dollars won't be going into the pockets of their special interest groups. In my stimulus plan I would enact what I call the ???Fair Interest Act???. The ???Fair Interest Act??? is the maximum amount of interest that can be charged for the following; on home loans, on credit cards, on mortgage loans, on personal loans???4.0%, student loans ???2.0%, and other type loan rates will be announced. The FIA will exist for the next three years (or longer). As people start making big dents into their debts they will have more disposable income. They will be more inclined to spend that disposable income because of an absence of high interest rate fear. All homeowners can refinance their existing mortgage. The way this refinancing package would work is like this; 35 years at 4% plus the first 5 years goes towards principle. I would place caps on fuel. A $1.00 cap on jet fuel, a $1.00 cap on diesel fuel, and a $1.25 cap on regular unleaded. This is temporary, at least for three years. This will allow businesses to reduce consumer cost and free up more disposable income for consumers to spend. I would also reduce all corporate taxes to 10% for the next three years I would reduce all small businesses taxes to 5% for the next three years. I would suspend any B2USB taxes for the next three years. There are no deductions for any businesses
The Republicans’ Road Back
They need to reconnect to core principles, but apply them in new ways.
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Conservatism in a liberal society has an inherently oppositional mission: seeking to preserve the best of the given world in a political culture enthralled with novelty and eager to get past the past. Modern American conservatism therefore began with a decisively and deeply oppositional cast around the middle of the last century.
But over the past three decades, the American right has attempted something quite different: a governing conservatism, which applies conservative principles and views to practical problems and seeks to enact policy reforms. This governing or reforming conservatism, which began in earnest with Ronald Reagan, can claim some far-reaching achievements, from a transformation of the American economic debate to successful reforms of the welfare system and urban law enforcement to proposed, but still mostly unconsummated, reinventions of public education and old-age entitlements.
Reinventing the GOP
Republicans face a daunting challenge in re-making and re-marketing their party. Who will shape that effort? Newsweek spoke to four leading Republicans:
In each case, conservatives have sought to preserve and secure the values of the family and the market against an encroaching progressivism, just as their more oppositional predecessors did. But they did so by working through politics and public policy rather than against them. Their work involved an intense intellectual engagement both with conservative ideas and traditions and with the problems of the moment. And their enactment of conservatism largely coincided (though not coincidentally) with a period of prosperity and growth almost unprecedented in our history.
In the past few years, however, conservatives grew palpably exhausted. As conservatism became busier with governing, it had less time for philosophical reflection. As its successes made welfare, taxes and crime less prominent issues, it was slow to apply itself to those that emerged in their place. As it turned its attention to grave dangers abroad, it lost its grasp of some domestic concerns. As its elected officials grew comfortable with power, they grew less interested in finding ways to restrain the excesses of the state; and so some grew corrupt as well.
The exhaustion of conservatism (not, as today's Democratic majority would have it, the enactment of conservatism) launched a period of complacency in domestic policy, discontent with which was one important factor in the public's rejection of Republicans. And this rejection appears to have launched, in turn, a period of liberal ambition directed to reviving and growing the welfare state, the failure of which galvanized governing conservatism into action to begin with.
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