Tuesday, April 18, 2017

It's All About Priorities

This started on my Facebook page. There I also tagged the Facebook pages of my Congressman and Senators. Feel free to share this yourself.

So, here's a thought. Instead of trying again to take healthcare away, or to address something as complex (and dicey) as the tax code, why not press forward on infrastructure.

  • First, it has bipartisan support. 
  • Second, it will create jobs, and jobs that can't be sent out of the country. 
  • Third, those jobs will be in the private sector (remember, the Government contracts those jobs out; they don't buy bulldozers or hire workers itself). ...
  • Fourth, there will be some significant multiplier effect, from the additional retail purchase of workers to the upgrading of heavy equipment to the investment in materials. 
  • Fifth, it will help with health insurance because these new employees will either be able to get employer-supported insurance or they'll be able to buy on the exchanges with fewer subsidies. 
  • Sixth, all that economic activity will increase tax receipts without increasing tax rates, for all levels of government.

So, why not pursue this instead of wasting time on the other issues?

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