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So, how will the GOP now improve the economy?

Bugsy McGurk

President
Since that's all we're hearing - that people voted in more Pugs to fix the "Obama economy."

So let's just ignore the fact that all economic conditions are VASTLY improved over the economic wreckage GWB left behind. Let's assume that many people actually thought that the GOP can offer better economic medicine.

What measures will the new GOP majority now propose to improve the economy?

Anybody?
 

BitterPill

The Shoe Cometh
Supporting Member
I think the GOP should do what Obama has been doing since it appears to be working.
 

Spamature

President
Since that's all we're hearing - that people voted in more Pugs to fix the "Obama economy."

So let's just ignore the fact that all economic conditions are VASTLY improved over the economic wreckage GWB left behind. Let's assume that many people actually thought that the GOP can offer better economic medicine.

What measures will the new GOP majority now propose to improve the economy?

Anybody?
Simple. Tax cuts for the job creators. Which will spur them to use their new found windfall to hire rows and rows of the unemployed to act as human carpets. Thus preventing to have to step on the same ground as the grubby unwashed masses and boosting the economy.
 
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1 - reduce taxes
2 - remove needless barriers to business formation
3 - reduce regulatory complexity/contradictions
4 - reduce the paperwork and administrivia burdern with hiring new people in the private sector
5 - halt efforts to increase the minimum wage across the board, as this destroys jobs
6 - improve high school graduation rates - literacy and skills are required for many jobs
7 - get a handle on illegal immigration, which is taking 50%+ of new jobs in some states and cities
 

Spamature

President
1 - reduce taxes
2 - remove needless barriers to business formation
3 - reduce regulatory complexity/contradictions
4 - reduce the paperwork and administrivia burdern with hiring new people in the private sector
5 - halt efforts to increase the minimum wage across the board, as this destroys jobs
6 - improve high school graduation rates - literacy and skills are required for many jobs
7 - get a handle on illegal immigration, which is taking 50%+ of new jobs in some states and cities
Minimum wage increases was on the ballot in 4 red states last night.

The all won.


Binding minimum wage referendums were on the ballot in Arkansas, Nebraska, Alaska and South Dakota on Tuesday, with polls suggesting ahead of election day that all would pass.

Arkansas voters approved their initiative by a 65-to-35 margin, according to early returns. The measure will increase the minimum wage incrementally to $8.50 per hour by 2017. Nebraska voters, meanwhile, approved their initiative, which will raise the minimum wage to $9 by 2016, by a 62-to-38 margin.



Alaskans voted by a 69-to-31 margin to raise their minimum wage from $7.75 to $9.75 an hour by 2016, and then peg it to an inflation index so that it rises with the cost of living. South Dakota voted 55-45 to raise their minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 next year. It will also be indexed thereafter.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/minimum-wage-raise-passes_n_6095458.html

 

Craig

Senator
Supporting Member
1 - reduce taxes
2 - remove needless barriers to business formation
3 - reduce regulatory complexity/contradictions
4 - reduce the paperwork and administrivia burdern with hiring new people in the private sector
5 - halt efforts to increase the minimum wage across the board, as this destroys jobs
6 - improve high school graduation rates - literacy and skills are required for many jobs
7 - get a handle on illegal immigration, which is taking 50%+ of new jobs in some states and cities
4 states vote to increase minimum wage...All RED...Interesting, no?


If there was upsets and contention in much of midterm voting, there was one topic on which the electorate was largely united: raising the minimum wage. Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota all had ballot measures on raising state minimum wages above both their current levels and the federal $7.25 an hour figure.

All four states passed the measures, most by significant margins. More than two-thirds of voters in Alaska agreed to raise minimum wage to $9.75 by 2016. Sixty-five percent of Arkansas voters set the state on course to adopt an $8.50 figure by 2017. In Nebraska, 59 percent said the number should be $9 an hour by 2016. Only South Dakota stood out with a slimmer margin; 53 percent voted to raise minimum wage to $8.50 an hour next year. In Alaska and South Dakota, minimum wage is now pegged to inflation, meaning that it will rise as the cost of living does.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2014/11/05/states-vote-for-minimum-wage-hike-but-is-it-enough/
 

PhilFish

Administrator
Staff member
they should raise taxs on the wealthy. and close corporate tax loopholes.

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Bugsy McGurk

President
1 - reduce taxes
2 - remove needless barriers to business formation
3 - reduce regulatory complexity/contradictions
4 - reduce the paperwork and administrivia burdern with hiring new people in the private sector
5 - halt efforts to increase the minimum wage across the board, as this destroys jobs
6 - improve high school graduation rates - literacy and skills are required for many jobs
7 - get a handle on illegal immigration, which is taking 50%+ of new jobs in some states and cities
An incredibly vague list of pipe dreams and talking points, in true GOP fashion.

But let's get specific. Your item number 1 - "reduce taxes." What do you have in mind on that, and how does it impact on the supposed GOP concerns over the high deficits?
 

Bugsy McGurk

President
Minimum wage increases was on the ballot in 4 red states last night.

The all won.


Binding minimum wage referendums were on the ballot in Arkansas, Nebraska, Alaska and South Dakota on Tuesday, with polls suggesting ahead of election day that all would pass.

Arkansas voters approved their initiative by a 65-to-35 margin, according to early returns. The measure will increase the minimum wage incrementally to $8.50 per hour by 2017. Nebraska voters, meanwhile, approved their initiative, which will raise the minimum wage to $9 by 2016, by a 62-to-38 margin.



Alaskans voted by a 69-to-31 margin to raise their minimum wage from $7.75 to $9.75 an hour by 2016, and then peg it to an inflation index so that it rises with the cost of living. South Dakota voted 55-45 to raise their minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 next year. It will also be indexed thereafter.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/minimum-wage-raise-passes_n_6095458.html
That is a remarkable fact about last night's elections - we hear today that the voters wanted more Pugs in because of voters' concerns over the wealth gap. But voters also approved all those neasures to hike the minimum wage, something the GOP bitterly opposes.

Strange indeed.
 

Craig

Senator
Supporting Member
That is a remarkable fact about last night's elections - we hear today that
That result, along with 3 more states electing to have their entire population become brain addled underachievers ('cuz you know, weed is hard to find:rolleyes:) is at least a small bit counter to the idea that conservatives took the day.

Even in Florida...the medpot measure was very popular, grabbing 57%. It was, however, an amendment and required 60% for passage.
 

BitterPill

The Shoe Cometh
Supporting Member
1 - reduce taxes
2 - remove needless barriers to business formation
3 - reduce regulatory complexity/contradictions
4 - reduce the paperwork and administrivia burdern with hiring new people in the private sector
5 - halt efforts to increase the minimum wage across the board, as this destroys jobs
6 - improve high school graduation rates - literacy and skills are required for many jobs
7 - get a handle on illegal immigration, which is taking 50%+ of new jobs in some states and cities
If we further reduce taxes, we further increase our national debt, borrow more from countries and people who will lend it to us. Of course, Cheney says the defecit doesn't matter, so there is that bit of wisdom to consider:

http://www.ontheissues.org/2004/dick_cheney_budget_+_economy.htm
 

Lukey

Senator
That is a remarkable fact about last night's elections - we hear today that the voters wanted more Pugs in because of voters' concerns over the wealth gap. But voters also approved all those neasures to hike the minimum wage, something the GOP bitterly opposes.

Strange indeed.
A failure to raise the minimum wage isn't the problem. Like the African American who called out the Dems last week said, "there ain't no jobs, minimum wage on what?" The problem is too much anti-capitalist legislation and regulation that depresses job creation, in turn depressing median wages.
 

BitterPill

The Shoe Cometh
Supporting Member
A failure to raise the minimum wage isn't the problem. Like the African American who called out the Dems last week said, "there ain't no jobs, minimum wage on what?" The problem is too much anti-capitalist legislation and regulation that depresses job creation, in turn depressing median wages.
That's all well and good, but demand creates jobs in the real world. If you want to improve the economy, you've got to create demand somehow.
 
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