Evansville for Change

Ian Martinez and his fiancee, Chantelle, are driving to Newburgh and expected to arrive on Friday, January 1, 2010. They are driving to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where Chantelle will be working with a fellowship there starting on January 4, 2010. She has a Masters’ degree in Physics. Bob and Cindy [...]

This initiative could either be included as part of the new Health Care legislation or as part of the funding for the new Jobs Stimulus legislation. I think one problem with the new Health Care legislation is that some very key parts of it don’t kick in for four years. “The Triple Double” here deals [...]

My estimate of a fair CBO score on the combination of Economy Juices #1, 2, and 3 came out so well (i.e. Total Federal Tax Receipts roughly triple the Total Cost of the Manufacturing Tax Credits), that I was curious to see how I think a fair CBO scoring would come out if I really [...]

The very talented CBO is extremely cautious in its CBO scoring of all legislative initiatives. So it could well be that the CBO would be more conservative here than me, but anyway, let me assess what I think fair CBO Scoring would be on my three-pronged combination Trifecta of Economic Juice Proposal: the Accelerated Payroll [...]

I don’t know about everybody else, but I am flat-out sick of this deep recession, which has lasted for two long years. I think it’s high time for some Jimi Hendrix-playin-on-the-guitar, Bruce Springsteen-rockin-on-the-stage dose of economic juice. Something is needed that will charge up all of US business, their employees, the many underemployed, and the [...]

The 50% bonus tax depreciation applied to both 2008 and 2009, but goes away, for the most part, in 2010. It’s pretty clear that this bonus tax depreciation hasn’t been a strong job creator in 2009, given the substantial rise in unemployment rates in 2009, while this 50% bonus tax depreciation has been in place. [...]

Since I think the US economy needs much more juice to create jobs, I will be posting, as time permits, a series of initiatives that I feel will best create sustainable jobs quickly and at reasonable cost. Accelerated Payroll and Related Employee Benefit Deduction here is the first one. To stimulate the economy and to [...]

I just finished watching President Obama’s speech on his economic team’s Jobs Stimulus proposals. All I can say is “Where’s the juice”? I think much more is needed to stimulate job creation than what was presented here. Businesses generally have no interest in hiring if they can increase their profits by more without doing so. [...]