Here's a simple little plan that all of Washington ought to like. They won't, though, because the plan doesn't make the other side of the aisle look bad. That's pretty much all they'll consider these days.
They've now decided that marriage isn't just between one man and one woman, but is now between the truest love match you can find in nature--Congress and tax cuts for the wealthy. No divorcing one from the other, no matter what the political affiliation. The Tea Party, in particular, will defend their nests to the death. Tax cuts, they say, are needed to create jobs.
So let's create jobs with them.
Instead of across-the-board tax breaks for all folks who can already afford things like late-night cravings for imported lavender honey, I say let's make tax cuts contingent on whether taxpayers have created jobs in the past year. Create a new job for an American in 2011, get a tax cut in April 2012. Create 2 new jobs, get 2 tax deductions. Eliminate American jobs, get penalized. And no cheating: you can't downsize one year, then recreate those jobs the next and claim tax cuts for them.
That simple. Give an American a job, get a tax cut. Hoard your money, get squat.
Instead of giving handouts to our deadbeat millionaire brothers, I say, let's make them earn their keep by putting America back to work.
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