THE PLAN
1. Reconstitute the Border. Use the American Market to drive the American economy, not the world economy!
a. Substitute a 45% Tariff on Foreign goods for the
Payroll tax.
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This is essentially revenue neutral with the import tariff raising about 1 trillion dollars and the payroll tax cut costing the Treasury about 1 trillion dollars but it is a significant disincentive to corporations moving your job overseas. Also the tax falls on foreign workers and corporations that have moved your job overseas rather than on the home team. To raise salaries it is fundamental to put barriers in the way of corporations commoditizing your labor and making our workers meet the suppressed India or China wage scale.
Given the salary differences that exist and will get larger as our salaries go up, this may be insufficient to correct the trade imbalance and if it is we will have to raise the tariff higher (with offsetting tax cuts elsewhere) until we do achieve a balance of trade. |
b. Substitute a 9% national sales tax for a 120,000
dollar tax deduction on income taxes.
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Again, this is essentially revenue neutral but takes almost 90% of the population off the income tax rolls. This tax falls on the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, German, and American producers equally rather than just torturing our home industries and workers.
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2. Enforce the Border. Much as the above changes in tax policy increase the need for American workers, there is no need to let corporations bring in illegal workers to drive our wages through the floor.
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We fought a bloody war to end slavery. Corporations left to their own devices will search the world for a desperate proletariat and bring it to our shores to drive down our wages to increase their margin of profit and inflate the egos of their CEO's. The big slave plantations were the corporations of the 18th century. The principle of destroying the wage scale of the workers for the profits of the few is unchanged. Just say no. We want to get paid a decent salary and we cannot concede on this point and raise our salaries. We know the immigrants are good people but that is not the point - the point is they are used by corporations to destroy our wage scale and this must be stopped.
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3. Eliminate Welfare. Let the shiftless shift for themselves.
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As our unemployment rate trends toward an acceptable level of 1 - 3%, we can dismantle the welfare system by not allowing anyone not currently on the rolls to enroll. This will eliminate the program by attrition. There will be no abrupt disruption but people will have to adapt to the new reality. If the current illegal population can survive, so can our citizens especially when we improve the employment situation.
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