Arianna appeared on Ali Velshi's Your Money on CNN alongside Mort Zuckerman and Eliot Spitzer to discuss how the United States can get a handle on unemployment.
"This is the new consensus that's emerging, beyond left and right, that the government needs to do more when it comes to a payroll tax holiday, for example, which would allow companies to hire more," she said. "It needs to do more when it comes to infrastructure spending. Our infrastructure is crumbling and the government can borrow at below three percent. Construction workers are idle... This is the time for the government to step in."
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If they donate it directly to these organizations and cut out the middle man (US Government), more money will be able to help more people. The US Government and the idiots that run it have proven time and time again that they don't care about the wasteful spending of taxpayer money. Why would you give more money to a bunch of idiots that use taxpayer dollars to benefit themselves, their families and their friends.
I mean, how in the hell do you get a country in debt to the tune of over 14 trillion dollars. There has to be a reason as to why this country has a debt of 14 trillion dollars, How do you justify giving more money to a bunch of idiots that have ran up a debt of 14 trillion dollars. Exactly how does giving these idiots more money going to change the debt ridden road of this country.
There is an unavoidable answer and the country will eventually get there.
Everybody, even homeless street people, will have to pay more taxes.
This means that the government has to recycle a lot more money, there has to be a lot more economic activity. It is not trickle down----it is up, down and sideways.
Look at more successful countries, what do they do?
Higher income persons have to contribute more, a lot more, than they do in the US.
There are also more sales taxes, taxes on everything conceivable to help recycle more money. That is the answer.
The problem with the US is just simple and pure selfishness.
Don't touch my money, don't touch my tax breaks.
This would eliminate all the loopholes out there, the IRS could be greatly reduced, and federal income tax would be fair.
Government do more on infrastructure? Nah. Government is too busy catering to the whims of the corporate elite, including insuring their bad bets and debts get paid off and subsidizing their profit margins to higher levels. Besides, the peons in the middle class won't need any infrastructure, as they slide to extinction.
Thanks, pundits, for spinning another fairy tale for us to read.
Sure. The way to resolve the debt problem is to borrow more.
Shrewd.
You take money (taxes) from some people to create jobs for other people who then rebate a portion of their wages in taxes.
Problem is that all their wages were taxes to start.
Also, you incur more costs as the costs of employment include, aside from taxes, hiring costs, supplies to work, etc. All of that, never seen by the newly hired is spent and it's all taxes too.
Any increase in taxes reduces what those who are taxed can make available to create jobs the free market way...by spending where they choose, and thus sponsoring prosperous businesses which in turn hire more people, pay vendors who in turn hire more people.
Your way is to put politicians in charge of who works, where they work, how much they get paid and how much they get to keep.
That's the system we have. It hasn't worked out very good now, has it?
And the government should step in and make sure that this 'News Aggregation Site' pays for it's content, and pays it's writers a fair wage.
And doesn't sell your personal data to anyone who waves a dime her way.
Somehow, I have a feeling that she wouldn't be in favor of that.
How? What will be the revenue stream of private business doing public maintenance? Where will the profit motive factor in? What would they charge to fix YOUR streets, bridges, parks, schools, libraries, etc? Would you like to have toll booths on every street, highway, and bridge? Just for starters? How to richly compensate the CEOs and stockholders? How much MORE would that cost than just your ordinary taxes??? Would you like to pay, say, $5 toll just to access your own street? And every street you come to in the course of a day? Who is going to collect all these tolls? How much are THEY going to earn...
Be careful what you wish for, low government folks.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/2006cpr/pdfs/chap3.pdf
1.) Democrats recently proposed a Payroll tax holiday:
“The Evil Anomaly of Republican Opposition to the Payroll Tax Cut”
-June 23, 2011/Politicususa's R. Muse
http://www.politicususa.com/en/payroll-tax-cut
2.) Democrats recently proposed Infrastructure spending:
“Republicans' Determination To Disrupt Democrats' "Jobs-First Agenda" Threatens Our Economy”-June 7, 2011/ U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
"...They [Republicans] want to end Medicare in order to pay for more millionaires’ tax breaks...."
-US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
http://reid.senate.gov/newsroom/pr_060711_jobs.cfm
3.) Democrats recently proposed reform of H-1B and H-1 work visa programs:
“…Democrats seek major H-1B, green card reform New bill would gives green card to science, advanced-degree tech grads and people who create businesses
Computerworld/ By Patrick Thibodeau/June 15, 2011…”
• http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217628/Democrats_seek_major_H_1B_green_card_reform
4.) Democrats push DREAM Act despite Republican opposition/By Tom Cohen, CNN/June 29, 2011
• http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/28/senate.dream.act/
5.) GOP blocks Democrats' jobs outsourcing bill-CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/gop-blocks-democrats-jobs-outsourcing-bill/
Thank you for not mentioning nonsense like paying the unemployed to sweep the streets, paint walls, or be "teacher assistants."
The government and public refuse to acknowledge that it's the former middle class who are unemployed or underemployed and shoving them into crap, low paying jobs is not the answer.