We Need Real Bipartisan Solutions
Americans looking for jobs and struggling to pay bills will be
disappointed by the spending package written by Congressional Democrats
and signed by President Obama today. The transparency and
bipartisanship that President Obama promised the American people was
sacrificed to pass a pork-laden bill without any public review or
meaningful Republican support.
In these difficult economic times, it is imperative that
Republicans and Democrats work together to create new jobs and grow the
economy. Instead, Congressional Democrats worked behind closed doors to
write legislation that will fall short of creating the promised new
jobs, but will guarantee a larger debt burden on our children and
grandchildren.
Republicans are unified in our disagreement with Congressional
Democrat leaders and President Obama on this bill. It all comes down to
this - the Democrat plan focuses on putting Americans on the public
dole, while the Republican plan focuses on putting America back to work.
The Republican Party stands ready to work together in a bipartisan
manner with the Democrat leaders in Congress and the President.
Hopefully they will learn from the mistakes in this bill and be
interested in true bipartisan efforts in the future.
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Bipartisan (here) means: Low Taxes (R) + Adequate Demand (D)
Since both parties claim to want lowest necessary taxes, they should be able to agree on the purpose of taxes. To a degree, they do agree that taxes can often lower private spending. This may be necessary to keep price affordable. Neither party emphasizes that private savings reduce spending and may help to protect money from price inflation. Were they to agree on this, they might see merit in reducing taxes to zero when private savings were high enough to protect money without taxes. Thereafter, as necessary, they might agree that the lowest taxes are desirable--so savings ought to be encouraged. They might also agree that protecting savings from inflation, by COLA indexing, would help.
Both parties also want adequate demand to justify private business and the jobs it can create. Where private spending falls short of high enough demand for profit and full employment, both parties should agree on enough government spending to protect profits and wages from recession, depression and national and global economic and political instability.