11/08/19 18:33:20.12 ygxOsIKM
飴の経済が「ダブルディップ」に陥る危険があって、そこまでゆかなくとも低成長と高失業率が続くと
来年の大統領選挙でオバマ再選が絶望的になる、というのがおおかたの観測。そこで、如何に失業問題
に取り組むかという議論になって、↓のはUCバークレィのライヒ（クリントン政権の労務長官）の書い
ているもの。老いたりといえどもリベラル・バリバリのライヒ、としか言いようがないけど。
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Is Obama finally fighting to create jobs? BY ROBERT REICH THURSDAY, AUG 18, 2011 08:01 ET
I'd estimate the shortfall in aggregate demand to be $300 billion to $500 billion this year alone.
Here are the ten components I'd recommend (apologies to those of you who have read some of these before):
1. Exempt first $20K of income from payroll taxes for two years. Make up shortfall by raising ceiling
on income subject to payroll taxes.
2. Recreate the WPA and Civilian Conservation Corps to put long-term unemployed directly to work.
3. Create an infrastructure bank authorized to borrow $300 billion a year to repair and upgrade the
nation's roads, bridges, ports, airports, school buildings, and water and sewer systems.
4. Amend bankruptcy laws to allow distressed homeowners to declare bankruptcy on their primary residence,
so they can reorganize their mortgage loans.
5. Allow distressed homeowners to sell a portion of their mortgages to the FHA, which would take a
proportionate share of any upside gains when the homes are sold.
6. Provide tax incentive to employers who create net new jobs ($2,500 deduction for every net new job
created).
7. Make low-interest loans to cash-starved states and cities, so they don't have to lay off teachers, fire
fighters, police officers, and reduce other critical public services.
8. Provide partial unemployment benefits to people who have lost part-time jobs.
9. Enlarge and expand the Earned Income Tax Credit -- a wage subsidy for low-wage work.
10. Impose a "severance fee" on any large business that lays off an American worker and outsources the job
abroad.
まあ、3のような発想が出てくるのは理解できるけど他のアイデアには・・