Newt Gingrich: 21st Century Contract with America
By Brian Kirwin | Monday, October 3rd, 2011 | PoliticsNewt Gingrich rolled out the first part of his 21st Century Contract with America – 10 proposals for change as part of his Presidential campaign. It’s far more detailed and profoundly broad than most of the “plans” candidates float, and much of this Newt has been talking about for years. Here are the 10 main topics (much more detail can be found here)
1. Repeal Obamacare and pass a replacement that saves lives and money by empowering patients and doctors, not bureaucrats and politicians.
2. Return to robust job creation with a bold set of tax cuts and regulatory reforms that will free American entrepreneurs to invest and hire, as well as by reforming the Federal Reserve and creating a training requirement for extended federal unemployment benefits to encourage work and improve the quality of our workforce.
3. Unleash America’s full energy production potential in oil, natural gas, coal, biofuels, wind, nuclear oil shale and more, creating jobs, stimulating a sustainable manufacturing boom, lowering gasoline and other energy prices, increasing government revenues, and bolstering national security.
4. Save Medicare and Social Security by giving Americans more choices and tools to live longer, healthier lives with greater financial independence.
5. Balance the federal budget by freeing job-creators to grow the economy, reforming entitlements, and implementing waste cutting and productivity improvement systems such as Lean Six Sigma to eliminate waste and fraud. Pass a balanced budget amendment to keep it balanced.
6. Control the border by January 1, 2014 and establish English as the official language of government; reform the legal visa system, and make it much easier to deport criminals and gang members while making it easier for law abiding visitors to come to the US.
7. Revitalize our national security system to meet 21st century threats by restructuring and adequately funding our security agencies to function within a grand strategy for victory over those who seek to kill us or limit American power.
8. Maximize the speed and impact of medical breakthroughs by removing unnecessary obstacles that block new treatments from reaching patients and emphasizing research spending towards urgent national priorities, like brain science with its impact on Alzheimer’s, autism, Parkinson’s, mental health and other conditions knowledge of the brain will help solve.
9. Restore the proper role of the judicial branch by using the clearly delineated powers available to the president and Congress to correct, limit, or replace judges who violate the Constitution.
10. Enforce the Tenth Amendment by starting an orderly transfer of power and responsibility from the federal government back “to the states, respectively, or to the people,” as the Constitution requires. Over the next year, state and local officials and citizens will be asked to identify the areas which can be transferred back home.
Future weeks will roll out a “Day One” proposal for nearly 100 Executive Orders Newt will propose, and you can submit your ideas here.
The candidate with real ideas has just put his on the table.
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6 Responses to "Newt Gingrich: 21st Century Contract with America"
Now we’re talking!
The only thing I would have changed in ANY of this would be specifics. “Robust job creation” is one thing, but “cut X tax by Y amount” would be something more tangible.
Still, Newt is the first candidate to roll out a plan. I like it!
And the media is obsessed with a slang word painted on a rock on leased land where Rick Perry hunts.
The next controversy may be Brazil Nuts (slang and referred to as “N****r Toes”) that will be strategically placed as snacks in Republican presidential candidate’s green rooms just prior to a debate so they can accuse those candidates of being closeted, racist cannibals. The media is doing its part to distract, deflect and confuse their herd in order to keep them in the corral. Please Newt, don’t let them set you up with Brazil Nuts and also, they aren’t good for the diet!
I’m still waiting for term limits…you still haven’t fulfilled your previous Contract with America. And what happened to the other one they hashed out a couple years ago?
1. What have the Republicans been waiting for? If they’ve got a replacement why haven’t they offered it up?
2. Talking point, how about details.
3. No kidding, why not provide some details? How do you plan on doing this? And unless we dramatically increase fuel efficiency (say 1000 mpg), switch to 100% natural gas or ethanol, or start driving electric cars we’ll still be importing oil. Not to mention, we really should be concerned with environmental degradation.
4. A bunch of hot air. What does that even mean?
5. Still haven’t seen a plan that is a compromise? You keep talking, but still aren’t walking.
6. I think every state along the southern border has a Republican Governor, you’d think that they’d have worked the out with Bush. Until illegal immigrants are denied jobs then they’ll find a way in. Crack down on businesses, put their owners and managers in jail for hiring undocumented workers and we’ll eliminate illegal immigration really quickly.
7. Are you saying Obama hasn’t been doing a pretty good job at this?
8. How about CANCER research!? Stem cell research, increase research funding? It’s nice to see the Republicans change their tune.
9. Political pandering hot air. Give me a break.
10. Oh god, let’s be like Europe prior to the EU, a bunch of dysfunctional states. Terrible idea. Increase efficiency, economics of scale! Why do you want to go back to the stone age? Maybe each state could have its own gauge railroad. But of course, you’ve never been a big fan of this when California tried to this, why start now?
Shaun and Tor – the details are on the link in the article. Click and read.
For example, the taxes cut are listed as this:
Reduce the Corporate Tax to 12.5%. Reducing the corporate income tax, currently the second highest in the developed world, will make America the number one destination in the world for foreign investment and the millions of jobs that will accompany this designation. Most of the $1.4 trillion in profits locked up overseas by the current 35% tax rate will come home to be reinvested and distributed at a 12.5% rate.
Abolish the Capital Gains Tax. Lowering the cost of investment means hundreds of thousands of more jobs will be created. It happens every time we lower the capital gains tax. At a zero percent rate, hundreds of billions of dollars in new investments will pour into the United States to create new firms and build new factories.
Abolish the Death Tax. This law is economically misguided and morally indefensible, and it is time for the government to stop destroying family wealth. Abolishing the death tax ensures family-owned businesses can focus on creating jobs and growing rather than on dealing with tax law.
100% Expensing. We want American workers to have the most modern and most productive equipment in the world, and we can encourage this development by allowing companies to write off all their new equipment in one year.
JOBS AND PROSPERITY PLAN: TAX SIMPLIFICATION WITH AN OPTIONAL FLAT TAX
My legislation will also include an optional flat tax. All tax filers would be given the option to pay their income taxes subject to current income tax provisions or to pay under a lower single rate of taxation with limited deductions.
Brian,
11. Stop screwing interns and junior staff members when you are married. If it was good enough to impeach Bill Clinton, then it is good enough to block Newt from being the Hypocrite-in-Chief.
Which one… A hypocrite with a plan or the current Hypocrite in Chief with an agenda?
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