I hear you talk about fiscal austerity and repealing Obamacare on a daily basis. You've voted to repeal Obamacare (and health insurance for 30 million people) 37 times now. In 2010 it was "jobs, jobs, jobs," and now it is "scandals, scandals, scandals." Well here are some no-brainer bills you could pass today and maybe win back a bit of credibility.
1. Investing in education. Education is the key to the future of the economy, and should be a right for all citizens. The educated make more money, and contribute more tax revenue over their lives. They also contribute more to the private economy. But schools need money and resources to do their job. It's a no-brainer!
2. Keeping low interest rates on student loans. Subsidized loans allow students an affordable education. I know your position is that colleges have a liberal bias and that only the rich should have an education, but the economics don't lie. Students are already paying that money back to the government with interest, and then go on to make more money to contribute more to the economy and tax coffers of the government. Easy peasy.
3. Immigration reform. You see, illegal immigrants can live in the country and pay no taxes. Aside from the obvious moral reasons to allow a path to citizenship (especially for college graduates with student visas), there is an economic argument to be made here too.
4. Infrastructure investment. What allowed the economy to boom after World War II was the infrastructure investment under the likes of Eisenhower (a Republican, notably). He left office in 1961 (52 years ago), and that infrastructure is outdated and crumbling. You cannot outsource the construction jobs it will take to make the improvements that are desperately needed.
5. Invest in science. What is the driver of an economy? Innovation, and doing it BEFORE other countries get the patents. This will solve the problems of disease, our energy crisis, the global warming crisis (which IS real), allow us to explore and colonize space, and more. Austerity has led to cutbacks in this critical research while the rest of the world plows ahead. Don't you want America to be a leader? Not to mention the jobs innovation leads to: there are jobs today that didn't exist a decade ago because of breakthroughs in technology.
These should be no-brainers that we can all agree on and that will produce real results that will improve the economy and create jobs. Will you come out against it, and focus on bogus scandals and repealing Obamacare again?
Sincerely,
TOL
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