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Redfairen

(1,276 posts)
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 06:53 PM Nov 2013

Sen. Paul, opponent of Detroit bailout, to unveil plan to fix city

Source: Detroit News

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.



Read more: http://m.detnews.com/topstories/article?a=2013311190102&f=1207

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global1

(25,247 posts)
1. The Quickest Way For This Idea Of His To Be Rejected Is For.....
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 06:56 PM
Nov 2013

President Obama to agree with him and get behind it and support it.

Mr.Bill

(24,289 posts)
2. And it would be a twofer if Obama did this.
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 07:01 PM
Nov 2013

because it would also eliminate Paul from getting the republican nomination for President.

SDjack

(1,448 posts)
9. Good idea -- forgive a boat load of taxes that the people in Detroit
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 07:46 PM
Nov 2013

don't have the money to pay anyway. Well, it's better than sending them jail. New, live cash is needed to ignite an economy. Why not relocate the US House of Rep. to Detroit for the next 10 years? We can spare them -- they don't do anything anyway. So, they may as well loaf in Detroit. If it works, then on to East St. Louis, etc.

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
15. He's going to create an imaginary credentialing/oversight board ...
Wed Nov 20, 2013, 10:47 AM
Nov 2013

.... and then hire a bunch of know-nothing aqua buddha flunkie pals of his to "run" the city.
Cough Cough.

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