We were talking about stimulus, not the whole enchilada. With respect to that in particular:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Carrol Cox<[email protected]> wrote: > Max Sawicky wrote: >> What should he do that he hasn't done, as far as stimulus goes? > > Propose (and put real pressure on Congresds to obey) repeal of > Taft-Hartley. > Propose and really push for repeal of the "Double-Dip" > lefislation. (Not sure what this refers to. The Baskin-Robbins Act?) > Propose a National Health Service and threaten to resign if not > approved. > Propose tax levels be returned to those of the 1950s. > Reinstitute AFDC, without the police functions of that program. All off-point. > Resume Revenue Sharing with the States. He should be at least as > 'progressive' as Nixon. Actually the stimulus dough is much bigger than revenue sharing was. > Create a WPA (not a PWA or other such shuffle). The stimulus package is WPA by other means. Re: Shane The package is of a similar order of magnitude as the state-local sector's deficit. I would have been for more. Not obvious to me it would have "sailed through." For one thing, Members of Congress (Democrats included) are not fond of their state-local counterparts. Congress gets all the flak for taxing or spending, the states have all the fun of handing out the goodies. I could easily imagine a contentious conversation about the merits of bailing out California, a non-trivial part of whose travails are self-inflicted (dopey budget rules and tax limitations). _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
