nat4900
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It's a great bill, the upcoming Infrastructure Bill will be even greater
Here are some ideas, Frankie for a bill to help job creation and improve our collapsing infrastructure:
1. Cutting and suspending $245 billion worth of payroll taxes for qualifying employers and 160 million medium to low income employees.
2. Spending $62 billion for a Pathways Back to Work Program for expanding opportunities for low-income youth and adults.
a. $49 billion - Extending unemployment benefits for up to 6 million long-term beneficiaries.
b. $8 billion - Jobs tax credit for the long term unemployed.
c. $5 billion - Pathways back to work fund.[15]
3. Spending $50 billion on both new & pre-existing infrastructure projects.
4. Spending $35 billion in additional funding to protect the jobs of teachers, police officers, and firefighters
5. Spending $30 billion to modernize at least 35,000 public schools and community colleges.
6. Spending $15 billion on a program that would hire construction workers to help rehabilitate and refurbishing hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes and businesses.
7. Creating the National Infrastructure Bank (capitalized with $10 billion), originally proposed in 2007, to help fund infrastructure via private and public capital.
8. Creating a nationwide, interoperable wireless network for public safety, while expanding accessibility to high-speed wireless services.
9. Prohibiting discrimination in hiring against persons who are unemployed because of their status as unemployed persons..
10. Loosening regulations on small businesses that wish to raise capital, including through crowdfunding, while retaining investor protections.
If you like the above, know that it was all part of the American Jobs Act
.....and the above was SOUNDLY rejected by republicans in congress for just ONE main reason......................It would have had Obama's name on the Act.
Fuck the country's welfare....Party above everything else.......
Correct, right wingers?