5 Ways the Next President Can Fix the Economy

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My opinion for the first statement about eliminating corporate income taxes, especially if you are also going to hit companies with all the other energy taxes:
The issue of hitting the companies after the other taxes seems to be the taxation of shareholders who receive their dividends from a company out of profits which have already been taxed. What ever happened to the owner of the businesses only being taxed on the profits of the business? Now the business is taking hits from the profits as well as the distributions of the profits!
Also, I agree that by eliminating the corporate income tax can help our economy. We need to remember a good way to improve the economy should not be by adding new layers of the government, but by eliminating currently existing bad policies. We need to focus equally on efficiency and stimulus, so the government can set the state for a sustained and healthy recovery from this economy crisis.
Finally, the benefits for the economy will both affect the short-run and the long-run. I feel like it would benefit the most for the government budgets. In contrast, I feel like as a whole the outcome of eliminating the corporate income would not give much effect. For example, “In 2012, the entire corporate income tax is expected to bring in only $339 billion. That is roughly 11” of the total revenues and barely half the projected deficit.”

Danielle Shamroe of GA 10:16PM September 29, 2009

What is competition when we have big companies buying up small companies becoming bigger as a whole and running small companies out of business that will not sell or is not big enough to buy. is competition good when one company owns A town city state, or country?
small business's charge to much, Big business's charge what they can but low enough to put the little guy out of business. and in coming up with prices no body is considering the community they are doing business in just the bottom line which means sometimes making a show at caring for the community.
I like the idea of a small company because they can control and work better with there employees but have few other benefits.
I am afraid as our country gets bigger and our people stay out of the way of the government they are supposed to be a part of we will be more like slaves serving our government and pollution will get worse the dumps will fill up, there will be little wild life left........... I really do not want to think about where we are heading if the people do not take back the government.
It is the government that needs to be regulated by the people as well as business's
it's our country lets take care of it. you can go to most court houses to get the schedule of city counsel meetings, you can search the INTERNET for your congress people and other politicians it is your responsibility if you plan on improving or keep what we have, Myself I want to advance with the times which means the people may want to update our country to what would not have worked when our country was born.
Let's not look back, What is the possibilities?
Some drug dealers do pay some taxes(pharmaceutical companies)
Just my opinion
Don D. Brock

Don D. Brock of AZ 2:44PM August 26, 2009

Charge other countries for our military interventions. Iraq should pay for its liberation with its oil. Kuwait should pay for its liberation with its oil.

Joseph Coral of TX 8:46PM July 27, 2009

make marijuana legal make the drugdealers pay taxes

Percy Hinton of NV 8:09PM July 26, 2009

The President should sell natural sources to other country like oil I think it will help the economy

Percy Hinton of NV 7:59PM July 26, 2009

The President should sell natural sources to other country like oil I think it will help the economy

Percy Hinton of NV 7:59PM July 26, 2009

give american prisoners a chose,serve your country in war,take orders,reduced sentence,stay where you are,kick some ass

John Merritt of MO 8:10PM May 27, 2009

Yes, these ideas may help but calling people science geeks would not make people want to study that field. That will definitely will turn people away. Sometimes people, especially just coming out of high school, will pick a major because they want to seem cool, or want people to like what they are doing... alot of the time it's not even based on what they want. =[

Chanan of OH 7:01PM May 10, 2009

The plans above come with their own problems, inequalities and expenses. The easiest plan is to back out of our employment lifestyle and take on a garden paradise lifestyle of true retirement where our time is our own to tend our trees, plants and pets that provide fresh food around us. It gives us time to know and enjoy helping our neighbors and our families and to restore our communities. It is a time to enjoy the outdoors and receive health giving sunshine and light exercise.
It gives us time to teach our children how to live off the land in true freedom and independence and time to remind them that we almost destroyed ourselves by seeking after riches and honor, things God warned against. That will be a great fix for our economy and provide the solution to the world problems we created by ignoring His wisdom.
As Earth Day approached April 22, we need to call on our president to lift up the garden paradise lifestyle as a good standard for our people. People that have money and jobs can begin their paradise and leave jobs to people that do not have. The power to transform our nation and world is available to all.

Marie Devine of MO 12:06PM April 20, 2009

This appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on April 12:
Editor's note: In February we published reader suggestions — serious and otherwise — for how to fix the economic crisis. This was one of them (not "the winner" as some message boards have suggested):
"There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force … pay them $1 million apiece severance with stipulations. They leave their jobs. Forty million job openings — unemployment fixed. They buy new American cars. Forty million cars ordered — auto industry fixed. They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage — housing crisis fixed."
We didn't print that it would cost $4 trillion, or less than the bailout. But readers are right that this would cost $40 trillion — nearly three times the national gross domestic product and nearly four times the national debt. So, a fun idea? Sure, just like making pro athletes foot the bailout bill, investing in a national bullet train system or legalizing marijuana — all ideas our readers suggested. An effective one? Not at all. Of course, world leaders' ideas haven't been terribly effective yet, either.
It's not too late to share your ideas at www.tampabay.com/news/business/article973953.ece.

Becky Bowers of FL 4:11PM April 15, 2009