por admin » Mar Sep 06, 2011 6:23 pm
El candidato republicano Romney presento su plan de creacion de empleos dos dias antes que Obama:
Su propuesta incluye reduccion de impuestos y regulacion, imponer sanciones a China por sus practicas con su divisa y debilitar el poder de los sindicatos.
Romney Unveils Job-Creation Plan
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, in a bid to create jobs, proposed Tuesday to reduce regulations and taxes on companies, impose sanctions on China over its currency practices and weaken the clout of labor unions.
Trying to hold off rival Rick Perry, Mr. Romney traveled to economically suffering Nevada to deliver his plan, which was designed to position him as the GOP contender with the most comprehensive approach to job growth. It calls for reducing or eliminating several taxes; extracting more U.S. oil, coal and natural gas; expanding trade pacts; and slashing federal spending.
Democrats said Mr. Romney's plan was doomed to fail. Taxes already are near historic lows, they noted, and many employers say weak consumer demand is more troubling than taxes or regulation.
Mr. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, portrayed his plan as a bold vision to lower the nation's unemployment rate, now at 9.1%.
"America should be a job machine: jobs being created all the time, people looking for employees to join their enterprises," he said.
Many of Mr. Romney's proposals aren't new, although they could cause fierce debates in Congress if pursued. He would seek a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, cut nonsecurity discretionary spending by 5%, eliminate the estate tax and undo the 2010 health-care overhaul championed by President Barack Obama.
The jobs plan is Mr. Romney's first major policy statement since he announced his candidacy in June. It came two days ahead of Mr. Obama's scheduled speech on jobs before a joint session of Congress.
Mr. Romney's campaign predicted that his overall plan would lead to 4% annual growth in the U.S. economy and create 11.5 million new jobs over four years. The campaign didn't provide details about how it reached those projections, which are certain to be challenged by Democrats, independent groups and perhaps his GOP rivals.
Winning congressional approval for such proposals could prove difficult even if Republicans keep their House majority in the 2012 elections and take over the Senate. Senate Democrats would likely retain filibuster powers.
First, of course, Mr. Romney must win the Republican nomination, which eluded him in 2008. Many party insiders saw him as this year's early front-runner until Mr. Perry, the Texas governor, jumped in and shot to the top of polls.
Texas has gained many thousands of jobs during Mr. Perry's decade as governor, pressuring Mr. Romney and the other contenders to persuade GOP voters they can do a better job of attacking unemployment.
Mr. Romney called for lowering the corporate income tax to 25% from the current 35%. That rate is high compared with other advanced economies, but tax breaks allow many U.S. companies to pay little or no corporate tax. Mr. Romney said a lower rate would encourage companies to keep more operations within the U.S.
He would eliminate taxes on interest, dividends and capital gains for people making less than $200,000 a year. A campaign spokeswoman declined to offer estimates of the proposal's budget impact "because they are still being refined and finalized."
Most capital-gains taxes are paid by the richest Americans, and Democrats said Mr. Romney's plan would have scant effect.
Mr. Romney said he would keep the Bush-era income-tax cuts unchanged. Mr. Obama wants the cuts, which were set to expire this year, to disappear for the wealthiest taxpayers.
Saying Mr. Obama has greatly expanded federal regulations, Mr. Romney proposed steps to ensure that new regulations wouldn't cost employers more money. If a new set of federal rules raised costs for businesses, his plan would require other regulations to be eliminated as an offset.
He said he would place sanctions on China for deliberately keeping its currency low, which makes Chinese-made products easier to sell abroad. The Obama administration has complained about China's currency policy but hasn't made it a priority in the two nations' relations.
Focusing on labor unions, which overwhelmingly back Democrats in elections, Mr. Romney said he would seek rules making it easier to defeat unionization drives and to prevent mandatory withholding of union dues from workers.