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dc_dux · 03-28-2008, 07:33 AM

The top issue will be the economy and jobs....possibly a major public works program to fix the nation's crumbling infrastructure. And, if gas prices continue to rise, perhaps a windfall profit tax on the record high profits of big oil companies. Some type of subprime and credit reform.

Followed by health care reform, including the expansion of SCHIP by raising the eligibility level to include more children and perhaps the first phase of a larger initiative by enabling or establishing a national heath insurance pool for small businesses that currently do not provide insurance to employees.

Tax reform, with the first step being the immediate phase out of the Bush tax cuts (which were supposed to be temporary) and a refocus on middle class tax cuts and closing corporate tax loopholes.

Homeland security with a focus on further implementation of 9/11 Commission recommendations that have been ignored - ports, nuclear and chemical plants, and other high risk facilities - as well as restoration of a balance between national security and privacy rights. Expanded program to enhance local public safety capacities.

Go Green! I think this may be a surprise initiative.....reframing energy, environment and climate change issues into a national program to promote sustainability.

Restoring open government.....maybe a big open house and bonfire on the White House lawn to burn all the Bush executive orders that have created the most secretive government in US history.

How to pay for all this and maintain fiscal discipline?.......start with the current $2+ billion/week needed to pay for an unsustainable and unwanted large scale presence in Iraq. Add $billions more by returning the tax rate for top 2% to 1998 level.

And by an expanded program of reinventing government, a Clinton/Gore program of the 90s that resulted in $billions in savings for the federal government through regulatory reform, consolidation, etc.

Other issues....trade reform, education reform (fixing the bad No Child Left Behind)

What the Dems wont touch initially, for better or worse......entitlements (social security, medicare) and immigration reform

03-28-2008, 07:33 AM	#2 (permalink)
dc_dux Location: Washington DC	The top issue will be the economy and jobs....possibly a major public works program to fix the nation's crumbling infrastructure. And, if gas prices continue to rise, perhaps a windfall profit tax on the record high profits of big oil companies. Some type of subprime and credit reform. Followed by health care reform, including the expansion of SCHIP by raising the eligibility level to include more children and perhaps the first phase of a larger initiative by enabling or establishing a national heath insurance pool for small businesses that currently do not provide insurance to employees. Tax reform, with the first step being the immediate phase out of the Bush tax cuts (which were supposed to be temporary) and a refocus on middle class tax cuts and closing corporate tax loopholes. Homeland security with a focus on further implementation of 9/11 Commission recommendations that have been ignored - ports, nuclear and chemical plants, and other high risk facilities - as well as restoration of a balance between national security and privacy rights. Expanded program to enhance local public safety capacities. Go Green! I think this may be a surprise initiative.....reframing energy, environment and climate change issues into a national program to promote sustainability. Restoring open government.....maybe a big open house and bonfire on the White House lawn to burn all the Bush executive orders that have created the most secretive government in US history. How to pay for all this and maintain fiscal discipline?.......start with the current $2+ billion/week needed to pay for an unsustainable and unwanted large scale presence in Iraq. Add $billions more by returning the tax rate for top 2% to 1998 level. And by an expanded program of reinventing government, a Clinton/Gore program of the 90s that resulted in $billions in savings for the federal government through regulatory reform, consolidation, etc. Other issues....trade reform, education reform (fixing the bad No Child Left Behind) What the Dems wont touch initially, for better or worse......entitlements (social security, medicare) and immigration reform __________________ "The perfect is the enemy of the good." ~ Voltaire Last edited by dc_dux; 03-28-2008 at 08:14 AM..