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Words from Newt

While I know Newt Gingrich did (not) have a snowballs chance in hell of getting elected President or even for that matter getting the nomination of any party. I do like Newt, he is a thinker and he is talking about issues that are by and large being ignored by the major candidates. I get a weekly email letter from Newt and his organization and quite frankly I enjoy reading them. I thought I’d share with you the second to last one I received. You can sign up for the free newsletter here at HumanEvents.com .

“Consider some of the following principles for real change:

• There ought to be an optional single-rate tax simple enough to be filled out in one page. The optional single-rate tax ought to have a 17% rate for both individuals and corporations, so we can create more jobs in America instead of seeing them go overseas.
• We need a strategy to reindustrialize America and bring jobs back to America.
• There should be tax incentives for companies that make their headquarters in the United States and want to bring jobs to America.
• We need a decisive series of reforms to keep New York City the financial capital of the world. There must be changes in litigation, regulation, taxation and the visa system if New York is to remain the best place for investment in the world. Every American has a stake in keeping investment activity in the United States, and we need this change quickly or London may replace New York by the end of the decade.
• Social Security today is not facing up to the reality of people living longer, and it should be reformed to ensure it is stable and reliable and taken away from the politicians so the younger generation can rely on it. People should have the option to have a personal account in Social Security that they can invest to get a bigger retirement income. Any money left over in their personal Social Security account should belong to them, and they should be able to leave it to their family — something they cannot do today.
• Since we have an obligation to be good stewards of God’s creation for future generations, we need a new program of scientific and technological change and entrepreneurial leadership to meet the environmental and energy challenges.
• We should dramatically increase our investment in math and science learning and keep reforming and innovating until the failing bureaucracies in education are replaced by systems in which young Americans learn better than their foreign competitors.
• There should be a prize for breakthroughs in the environment and for highly fuel-efficient vehicles.
• Companies that invest in cutting emissions ought to get a tax credit to accelerate lowering carbon in the atmosphere.
• Homeowners should get tax credits for modernizing their homes and reducing energy use.
• The United States could reduce the carbon going into the atmosphere by 2,200,000,000 tons a year and be 15% better than the Kyoto standard if we simply produced the same percentage of electricity from nuclear power as France does today. There should be a strong effort to develop safe, reliable, 21st-Century models of nuclear plants which could be built quickly and reliably.
• Schools should be encouraged to open each day with a moment of silent prayer so those students who want to have a chance to be reverent at the beginning of each school day can do so.
• American history should be reemphasized in both K-12 and in college, and being able to pass a basic test in American history should be a part of both high school and all publicly funded college graduation requirements.
• We should reassert and reemphasize what is written in our Declaration of Independence, that our rights come from our Creator and are unalienable, and we should insist on the constitutionality of saying “One Nation under God” in our Pledge of Allegiance.
• The McCain-Feingold Censorship Act is unconstitutional and is a big part of why we now have destructive two-year long campaigns, and it should be repealed and replaced with a simple system of reporting all contributions every night on the Internet so everyone can see where every candidate’s support comes from.”

If you didn’t know that is from Newt you might think it is quite reasonable, admit it.

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