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发帖数: 8227 | 1 1) $70 billion in payroll tax cuts for small businesses to hire and grow
their workforce. The White House says 98 percent of businesses would get the
payroll tax-rate cut in half. Those who add jobs, get 100 percent "holiday"
(a 6.2 percent cut). Democrats point out that Republican presidential
candidate Michele Bachmann had supported a similar measure, as had Rep. Jeb
Hensarling, a member of the so-called budget "Super Committee."
2) $140 billion for local-government aid and infrastructure spending,
including roads, high-speed rail, school and neighborhood reconstruction as
well as improvements to wireless networks for police and firefighters.
* $35 billion teacher re-hiring and first responder fund designed to go
directly to school districts and local governments, thereby bypassing state
legislatures.
* $50 billion for transportation projects
* $30 billion to "modernize" schools, which the White House says would aid
30,000 schools.
* $10 billion for an "infrastructure bank," where money could be bonded and
thereby increases the bottom-line cost or value of construction projects.
3) $62 billion to help retool unemployment insurance and aid older workers
and the long-term unemployment. It's unclear if the unemployment insurance
proposal will cost states in the long-run by requiring them to increase the
state share (and therefore private business' share) of the increased
entitlement. The package also institutes so-called "wage insurance" to help
compensate those who have lost their jobs. And there's a plan to help the
long-term unemployed (those out of work for six months or more) by giving a
person unemployment benefits at the same time they're working for up to 9
weeks with a new employer. The White House says this is based on a Georgia
program called "Georgia Works," but it's supposed to be designed to ensure
people don't earn less than the minimum wage. There's also a $4,000 tax
credit for employers who keep a new employee for more than six months
4) $175 billion worth of continued and increased payroll tax cuts, going
from 2 percent to 3.1 percent. The White House said this would "inject"
money right away into the economy and equate to a raise for. 160 million
American families would feel this as a raise. |
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