My recommendation here is to invest in a substantial amount
of School Security Construction Fixups.
The purpose here is to make it extremely difficult for someone armed to
be able to break into a School.
My definition of Schools, both Public and Private ones,
would include not just K-12 Schools, but also large facilities holding many
even younger children.
And my definition of School here would also include
Community Colleges, Public Universities,
and Private Universities.
And then there should be very healthy grants for a portion
of other School Construction Fixups, including energy efficiency investments,
which both save future energy costs and help us on climate change.
So, how to pay for these substantial job-creating School infrastructure
investments?
Well, the energy efficiency investments should be designed
so that they do not cost the US Government a dime, in the long run. How?
By having the US Government share in a portion of the subsequent years’ energy
cost savings.
And the remaining of the School Infrastructure Investments,
including the Security Construction Investments, should be paid for by a very
stiff US Federal Excise Tax on both the purchaser and on the seller of every
firearm and on all ammunition. And this
US Federal Excise Tax should be a progressive one, where the percentage
increases as the total purchase price increases.
Also, there should be a continuing annual very healthy US Federal License
Fee paid for each firearm held by US citizens.
And lastly, there should be a hefty, very progressive US
Federal Gross Receipts Tax on all receipts of non-profit organizations, like
the National Rifle Association, the American Petroleum Institute, the Business
Roundtable, the Chamber of Commerce, the American Hospital Association, America’s
Health Insurance Plans, and the American Pharmaceutical Association, all involved
heavily in lobbying for industry special interests.
When you think about all of the above non-profit
organizations, they have all, without exception, severely damaged one or more of the following: the nation’s
security, the US
economy, full-time US
job creation at a livable wage, economic fairness between the wealthy and
everyone else, and the US Debt level.
And also any political non-profit organization should pay this
stiff US Federal Gross Receipts Tax.
It should be easy to design this overall multi-faceted package such that
there ends up being a substantial US Debt reduction, which can be used
to help solve the US Fiscal Cliff.
