Rand Paul to speak in Detroit and offer plan to 'get government out of the way'

[jct74]

Rand Paul to speak in Detroit and offer plan to 'get government out of the way'

By Khalil AlHajal
on October 31, 2013 at 12:11 PM

DETROIT, MI -- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is scheduled to speak at a Detroit Economic Club meeting on Dec. 6.

The club announced this week that Paul intends to "unveil his new legislative proposal to remove bankrupt Detroit and other economically blighted areas from poverty and the shackles of big government."

Paul said in August after the Congressional Black Caucus called for a federal aid for Detroit that he wanted to craft a "Republican alternative" to any aid package.

The White House last month announced a $300 million Detroit aid plan made up primarily of expedited, previously awarded federal grants and private contributions to be overseen by a U.S. Treasury official.

Paul is expected to unveil a proposal that "that gets government out of the way and provides new opportunities for prosperity" according to the economic club.

"Apparently in Detroit, there’s 46 pages of regulations for setting up a business, and everywhere you go, you’re paying off somebody or paying a legalized bribe to get your business license,” Paul said in an August radio interview. "You have to eliminate all that red tape and so it has [to] be a low-tax or a tax-free zone, and a regulation-free zone, and just do it because it’s blighted."

More information on the December meeting here (http://www.econclub.org/Meetings/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1f23fbbc-4b1e-4677-8260-dc8e279e5ec4).

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2013/10/rand_paul_to_speak_in_detroit.html

[angelatc]

Nice!

[tod evans]

Stop doing what doesn't work.....

Whodda thunk?

[alucard13mm]

I agree.. I have to pay about 800 USD to get a business permit in California, enter my business name into the registar, and required to buy an ad in an adjucated newspaper, and a business license in my city and all the other tape... If you are starting a small business, those few hundred of dollars goes a long way.

[limequat]

I hope he does some other events in the area. I never got a chance to shake Ron Paul's hand, would like to meet my next president before the crowds get too big.

[tennman]

I think the plan to get government out of the way should be to vote for Rand Paul in 2016!

[GregSarnowski]

Washington — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, who previously said Detroit would receive a taxpayer bailout “over my dead body,” will travel to the Motor City next month to offer his fix for the struggling city.

Paul, the Kentucky Republican and potential 2016 presidential candidate, will deliver his plan at the Detroit Economic Club on Dec. 6.

Paul last traveled to Michigan in September for the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, where he said he regretted his previous comments about Detroit made after the city’s July 18 municipal bankruptcy filing. At the GOP confab, Paul won the presidential straw poll and urged the Republican Party to be more inclusive.

In an interview in September with The Detroit News, Paul highlighted legislation he plans to introduce to help Detroit by forgiving federal personal income and corporate taxes as well as potentially payroll taxes in distressed cities to spur more hiring and attract new jobs. He said he intended to package the legislation as an effort with states that also forgive their taxes in targeted areas with high unemployment and poverty.

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131119/METRO01/311190102#ixzz2l8PGk763

[compromise]

Rand Paul is absolutely correct, as usual. The only way to save Detroit now is to turn it into the US equivalent to a Chinese SEZ.

[tod evans]

Might I offer a suggestion?

http://www.vannattabros.com/pics/d9n.jpg

[RonZeplin]

in targeted areas with high unemployment and poverty.

Discrimination and wealth spread. Equal treatment under the law?

[SilentBull]

Discrimination and wealth spread. Equal treatment under the law?


Yeah, I'm not crazy about the idea, but there is a great opportunity here to educate people and show them that there is an alternative to what the Dems offer.

[Woods]

I have a better plan. Put the Democrats on a one-way flight to the moon.

[angelatc]

Speaking to the Detroit Economics Club isn't exactly the same as speaking to the people here. It's a pretty pricey club to join. And they're not free market advocates.

But here's where you can buy tickets if you'd like to go: http://www.econclub.org/Meetings/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1f23fbbc-4b1e-4677-8260-dc8e279e5ec4

[angelatc]

Might I offer a suggestion?

http://www.vannattabros.com/pics/d9n.jpg


They'll just steal it and sell it for scrap.