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compromise
04-15-2013, 02:56 PM
http://www.nfdevent.com/

THE REVOLUTION STARTS TODAY


THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES FROM THE INSIDE

If you're in DC head to the House Office Buildings - if not - check out the policy below and call your Congressmen and tell them to beomce a cosponsor of The New Fair DealLet's get to it.


WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The New Fair Deal is the beginning of a revolution.

It's a bold, forward-looking reform agenda, built around four pillars, rooted in American principles.

A package of about a dozen bills promoting the four pillars will soon be introduced in Congress.


The Writers

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS), Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI), Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ)

The Pillars

End Corporate Handouts

No special favors for special interests. Treat all citizens alike. Period. In its limited capacity, our government was conceived to serve the many, not a favored few. These days, too many politicians create too many earmarks, grants, tax favors, and loan guarantees for political allies and privileged industries.
Corporate welfare-meaning policies that risk taxpayer money to pick winners and losers in the marketplace-is not only unfair, it's inefficient. It slants the playing field in favor of crooked monopolies and drives up prices for consumers. It plants the seeds of costly taxpayer bailouts. Let's end it.
Highlights

Eliminates the special subsidies to the sugar industry-subsidies that that benefit a tiny handful of rich "sugar moguls" while needlessly driving up food costs for families and businesses.

Eliminates special tax breaks for energy producers, including wind farms and plug-in vehicles.

Repeals loan and grant programs for "advanced technology vehicles" and "broadband technology." Such programs risk taxpayer money to pay businesses to do what they would do anyway with their own money.

Ends taxpayer subsidies for high-speed rail and railroad track maintenance. Profitable railroad companies can easily fund themselves; why should taxpayers subsidize unprofitable ones?

Terminates agencies whose mission is to subsidize industry, such as the Economic Development Administration and the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Tax Fairly

No more pitting us against each other. Today's hopelessly complicated tax structure unfairly pits one American against another. Marriage penalties, arbitrary annual extenders, and special-interest tax breaks typify a massively complex and inefficient tax code-and needlessly divide us.
Why not sweep all that away and replace it with a system that's simple and fair to all? Under the New Fair Deal, distorting "credits" and deductions will be eliminated, today's seven brackets will be reduced to just two, and taxation will be much more simple and efficient for everyone.
Highlights

Replaces today's hopelessly complicated income tax code with a simple, two-rate flat tax system.

A 1% "skin-in-the-game" contribution, so everyone pays something.

Eliminates most credits, deductions, and exemptions, but retain a generous standard deduction and deductions for charitable donations and mortgage interest.

Eliminates the marriage penalty through doubling.

Repeals the Death Tax and the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Stop Overspending

Our government should live within its means. It's time to diminish the massive burden of debt that's strangling our economy and threatening our future. The New Fair Deal will put an end to automatic spending increases.
Instead, it will lower total federal spending by one percent each year to produce a balanced budget within a decade. And NFD keeps the budget balanced through other process reforms and program reforms and eliminations. Just don't expect us to spare any sacred cows.
Highlights

Ends baseline budgeting. No more automatic spending increases.

Reduces federal spending by at least 1 percent a year, until the budget is balanced, and keeps it balanced by ending baseline budgeting and eliminating numerous specific programs and agencies, especially those that primarily benefit special interests.
Empower Individuals

People should have the freedom to pursue their dreams. Government health care, welfare, and retirement programs were established as safety nets. They are that-but they also ensnare people in a web of dependency, coercion, and ever-rising taxes. What's more, they drive up the national debt and raise every family's health care costs.
Some of these programs offer a young people a bad deal: taxes always go up, but "guaranteed" benefits may not be there when needed. The "social charter" is showing its age, and needs to be renewed on a more solid footing. The New Fair Deal says: "Let's ensure security to the poor and elderly. But let's also convert hammocks into springboards. Let's make entitlement programs financially sustainable-and less coercive. Let's deprive no one of what is properly his-but let's respect every individual's dignity through greater ownership and freedom of choice."
Highlights

Makes social-welfare entitlements secure for the poor and elderly, sustainable for taxpayers, and more voluntary for everyone.

In place of burdensome mandates and costly bureaucracy, NFD includes robust reforms to reduce the cost of health care for everyone.

Makes health care costs 100 percent deductible for all patients.

Lets everyone have access to a tax-advantaged Health Savings Account.

Provides generous targeted help to the one percent of Americans who can't afford health insurance due to a pre-existing medical condition.

Greatly expands Medicare seniors' choices. Let them choose between original Medicare and a private Medicare Advantage plan, or even enroll in the Congressional Health Care plan.

Reestablishes the original policy of allowing seniors to disenroll from Medicare without penalty.

Permits seniors to pay their doctors directly to obtain the health care services they need, without losing their Medicare.

Returns means-tested welfare, including Medicaid and food stamps, to the states, who can better manage these programs.

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anaconda
04-15-2013, 03:53 PM
I read a Yahoo story on this and it comes off sounding (to the average person) like a scam to benefit corporations and screw the little people.

http://news.yahoo.com/reinvigorate-republican-party-tea-party-takes-page-occupy-183349126.html

compromise
04-15-2013, 04:31 PM
Article is incorrect:
"all of the11 House lawmakers involved in the measure are white men, including prominent conservatives such as Rep. Tom Price (R) of Georgia and Rep. Jim Jordan (R) of Ohio."

Amash is Arab, a group that has been neglected by the GOP for a decade, not white.