The Party with No Ideas

.....Here again, the most sensible solution comes from the right. Human capital loans would allow students to obtain an education. But repayment would be limited to a percent of the graduate’s income (say 10%) for a limited number of years. This system is progressive, because students who do better pay more and they are not subsidized by cohorts who earn less. Students who paid their own way wouldn’t have to subsidize a free ride for others. And, it would give colleges a stronger incentive to care about the economic fate of their graduates.

....If there is a good reason to limit carbon emissions, economists are virtually unanimous about how to do it: a carbon tax. That would give everyone an incentive to reduce emissions but leave them free to find the least burdensome way of doing so.

Why is this alternative unacceptable to the left? Apparently, any solution that relies on individual choice and market prices is to be rejected per se.

In each of these policy areas, not only does the left not have a viable policy idea; there are good, right-of-center ideas that really would solve problems.

What’s the right way to fund infrastructure? With user fees – so that the people who get the benefits are the ones who pay the cost. Where should the initial capital come from? Private investors will be better stewards and better watchdogs than government bureaucrats managing taxpayer money.

The rich already pay an enormous share of the tax burden. If they need to pay more, a progressive consumption tax(long favored on the right) is efficient and it works. Wealth taxes (favored by the left) are inefficient and they don’t work.

What’s the best way to raise wages? By lowering taxes on capital, not by raising them.

There is a pattern here. For the past 50 years virtually every sensible public policy idea that has been debated – both here and abroad – has come from the right.

School vouchers. The flat tax. Private social security accounts. Lower corporate income taxes. Using markets to reduce pollution. Using markets for almost everything else.....https://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2019/06/01/the-party-with-no-ideas-n2547235 The left has no ideas. Only big government controlling everything. Only super high tax rates to pay for it all.

 

The right is full of low tax free market ideas to solve virtually every issue we face.

 

Thank you for the sarcasm!

 

There was no sarcasm coming from me on this issue. Read the seeded article from the link and see for yourself.

 

Well sorry I guess I figured since Trump and the Republicans did control the entire government and the only thing that actuallly happened is the rich got a lot richer and the national debt ballooned you were being sarcastic.

 

That’s not what actually happened. Unemployment at record lows. Wages finally going up, families increasing their wealth. Energy independence. Increased defense,

 

True or false - the national debt is higher than when Trump took office.

 

Yes the trends Obama put onto place continue. But the fact is that the Trump tax cuts did virtually nothing but make the rich much richer while blowing up the national debt.

And energy ondependance happened under Obama although he had noting to do with it since basically fracking and horizontal drilling created the oil boom.

And increased defense spending has done nothing except waste a lot more taxpayers money.

 

It goes up every year. The problem is that democrats love policies that run up the debt. Except they turn around and oppose it for National defense and Republican proposed tax cuts.

 

BOTH parties run up the debt - they just spend it a little differently.

 

A rising tide lifts all boats. On my 5k run through my neighborhood, I’ve noticed lots of construction. Several new porches, it must be a thing, a couple new additions, a garage and lots of new landscaping. None of these projects are cheap and our community is pretty middle class. So I would say you are correct

 

You must live in a blue state...Its been that way since Obama.

Trump had nothing to do with that.

 

I do live in a blue state with a very popular 2-term Republican Governor. Why would you think it’s because of Obama?

 

Ahh, gerrymandering at its finest. But I'm sure he must be a "RHINO" republican, we can live with those.

I'm just pointing out that you noticed those things a bit late.

 

The real growth is in the red states. Trump had a lot or almost everything to do with our improving economy.

 

How to gerrymander a statewide election contest? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

If your presumptions regarding wages etc. were correct then why are CREDIT CARD DEBTS AT ALL TIME HIGHS?,College loan debts all time highs and delinquencies,auto lans all time hi9ghs and delinquencies,corporate debt at an all time high.People fat with cash would not be going ass over tea kettle into debt???

 

How could I notice a bit late when construction on these projects is happening now? You say gerrymandering at its finest and you are correct. The Democrats have effed up this state royally with their ridiculous districts. Maryland is the most gerrymandered State that favors Democrats and has been federally ordered to redistrict by 2020 or it will be done for them .

 

Trump has messed up housing with his tariffs an untax breaks.
Maybe it will restart.

 

Noticed the economic upturn, not so much the "construction projects"

 

Yes, it certainly has taken off the last 2 years.

 

Where?

 

Nope, since Obama..Especially in MD.

 

Just to take the sting off of the liberal who realizes it and crucifies you......in 2010 Obama instituted the best help for students that has happened in a long time.

This plan included a repayment option based off of your income and I use it myself today.

It also forgives your loans 20 years after you initiated them.

It's one of the few things he did that was actually good.

https://www.loanforgiveness.org/forgiveness/obama-student-loan-forgiveness