The GOP kisses the Rust Belt goodbye
by Susan J. Demas
Do the Republicans ever plan to win Michigan again? How about Ohio, Illinois or even Indiana?
Before the gang of GOP senators killed the $14 billion bridge loan for Chrysler and General Motors last week, they unleashed an ugly Southern snobbery about us Rust Belt rubes. And they just might have strangled their chances in here for years to come.
Let's not forget the GOP just lost the entire region to the man who will become the first African-American president, save for West Virginia. The Republicans only have one governorship here, in Indiana. Evidently, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell & Co. want to finish the job. full article
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My comment:
Susan, you have sighted in the Big Gov Big Business RINOs(Republicans in Name Only)who have been herding the GOP for many years. They are better identified as Nationalists. Though we may differ on the constitutional power the Federal Government to bail out industry, you have given a clear view of not only the GOP but of the Democrats also. Neither have been for the interest of we the people.
How is it that this Grand Nation has been brought to it's knees. How is it the strongest industrial manufacturing center of the world is now, as you say, 'a rust belt memory'? Your right, Saul does get it and he nearly became the RNC Chairman, but the good ole boy Shadow, insisted on a strong RINO, Mr. Steele.
Now to the underlying fact that has had us all hoodwinked for many years. Since the introduction of Free Trade policy by President Reagan, we have watched and listened to both parties tell us that it is a good thing for us to lose jobs overseas, because we are so smart that we will replace them with strong service jobs and new technology. With the federal reserve keeping check our labor force to maintain an overabound number of workers, the family cashflow has dwindled to where it takes 3 wage earners to just get by.
When free trade kicked in, what was overlooked, in my opinion, purposefully, is the tax structure we had created under a 50 State free trade policy, inwhich the ever expanding federal government got it's revenue. These taxes were built into the price of domestic product due to the simplistic and tyrannical method of using business structure to control collecting tax. This has resulted in the handicapping of domestic manufacturing putting a 22%(now more) product cost on top of actual production costs, making foreign products a cheaper buy for consumers. We have not been on an equal trading floor since the 1980s.
An example of those who took advantage of raping America of Her jobs is Baines Capital. Romney gained huge wealth by cannibalizing American business and taking the contract order overseas to evade the USA Tax structure, including at State taxation level in Michigan and other States under the same production tax system.
The democrats are not blameless in this either. They embrace the production tax as a method of controlling the workers and distributing the wealth through the progressive income tax system.
Hope you were able to keep with me on this. It is a boring subject, but most important. The cure to our present plight of joblessness, especially in the Rust Belt is to change the Tax structure from production to consumption, lowering the manufacturing cost of domestic product by removing all taxes hidden and putting it onto a consumption tax, which will tax imports equally to domestic goods. Jobs will flood back to America.
Twenty some years ago, a group of scholars from the highest pedigree of schools gathered and spent 20 million dollars perfecting a new tax structure to consumption. This plan sits in both chambers of Congress ready to go on January first of the year it is implemented. It has around 80 co-sponsors in the House and has grown in popularity across the nation. As people study and learn of the value of this plan, they make it a Cause for saving America. It is not a party cause, it is an American cause. As of late, a President Obama State Coordinator has joined the chorus of supporters.
The plan is the FairTax plan, the same one that Governor Huckabee has as his platform for the Quest of fixing America. As the Governor has said, it is not Wall street we need to fix, it is Main Street. Please consider joining in this cause. A note of support for Saul Anuzis, he is a former member of the National Board of Directors for the FairTax Organization. I agree fully in your assessment of Saul as a superb leader. Your support in the www.FairTax.org Plan may just be the single event to push the plan up over the top and bring salvation to America.
In Michigan we are attempting to make our State busniess friendly too by pusing for enactment of the www.MIFairTax.org plan. Would you help?
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No, forget Michigan and Illinois. Evidently those are marxist failed states where honest people no longer reside.
ReplyDeleteCharlie, your hardened heart is becoming your demise. I am from Michigan. The problem with industroalized States has been the GOPs big Business RINOs who have been a centered threat on unions. A union worker can be a super conservative, but is so afraid of the GOP they are forced to into liberalism.
ReplyDeleteThat is changing. The left has become an even greater threat now with all this communism taking hold. Also the GOP is having the RINOs cleansed and State sovereignty front and center. Also, when FairTax is studied and understood,odds are it will be owned by conservatives, as the communist leaders will be in great fear of eliminating the marxist progressive income tax.
Again, taking back the GOP willl be key to the Rust Belts resurgence.