The Economic Policy Institute describes the disturbing trend of Federal failure to maintain Employment and Training services. Real evaluation of the situation must state certain basic elements to the problem. Half of the Labor force are not acclimated to any form of Training programs, relying upon on-the-Job training to provide them with the knowledge and skills they require. Business management, though, has been moving in the direction of requiring developed Skill levels already acquired; conjoined with the awareness that labor cadres exist within the labor with this knowledge. The result consists of a massive segment of the Labor force actually being displaced from that labor force, what with Business Offshoring of their manual labor production in order to avoid social welfare Costs.
I still advocate a program where Community colleges are integrated with the High School system, funded by the School districts with heavy Federal funding. Most would claim this policy threatens huge Cost to the School districts, but the long-term outcome generated would consists of a greater employment of school district labor forces; Business Start-Ups still occur in areas with qualified labor and opportunity. I seriously doubt if the total Cost would exceed any one year of the Iraq War, and believe it likely that the program would pay for itself within a decade.
Arnold Kling poses a sound question: Will repeal of the Bush Tax Cuts actually reduce the numbers of Taxpayers subject to the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax)? What difference? Taxpayers are paying one tax or the other. The real difference comes in the higher Income classes, where they must once again assume some of the Tax burden which so hinders the lower Income classes from restoring some Income parity with the higher Income classes. The bottom line states that All should share an equal percentage real Tax burden for a Government, which has lost all proportion in it’s Expenditures; such equality would propel a united Taxpayer front to limit the excesses of Government. lgl
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