Gingrich talks common sense

Once again Newt Gingrich identifies practical, workable solutions to a crisis. To get the country’s economy back on track the former House Speaker and present general chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future, suggests 12 sensible things America should do:

• Create a payroll tax credit to help workers and small businesses.
• Cut the 25 percent marginal tax rate to 15 percent.
• Reduce the business tax rate.
• Stabilize housing prices by providing tax credits so responsible home buyers can avoid foreclosures.
• Control federal spending and move to a balanced budget.
• End Medicare fraud by requiring states to adopt anti-theft and anti-fraud measures.
• Develop more American energy.
• Abolish taxes on capital gains.
• Protect workers' right to vote in a secret ballot before being forced to join a union.
• Replace the Sarbanes-Oxley law regulating corporations' accounting practices.
• Abolish the death tax.
• Invest in infrastructure, including a new electric grid.

An ad in USA Today outlining these 12 ideas criticized the "failed Washington model of bailouts, deficit spending and a bloated federal bureaucracy."

Newt Gingrich is probably the most perceptive and credible voice on the scene today. We have to hope more people will start listening to him.

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