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.
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global1
(25,168 posts)President Obama to agree with him and get behind it and support it.
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)because it would also eliminate Paul from getting the republican nomination for President.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)nah
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Worked for his head. Sort of.
longship
(40,416 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)they'd have to use a wolverine.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)geardaddy
(24,924 posts)You know he doesn't have an original idea in his rug-covered head.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)SDjack
(1,448 posts)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.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)from Ayn Rand or some such shit
wowser
(6 posts)a guy that looks like Lee Harvey Oswald.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)quadrature
(2,049 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts).... and then hire a bunch of know-nothing aqua buddha flunkie pals of his to "run" the city.
Cough Cough.
Xolodno
(6,341 posts)He'll go to Wikipedia and read the Mad Max plot.
The ultimate libertarian dream....