Curtis,

Let me oblige. No to Trump's tax cuts for individuals. I don't believe in that trickle down voodoo magic plus it doesn't work. We should lower the corporate tax rates for small and mid-size business as I believe, and personally know, that they create majority of jobs and have attachment to communities. I'm for lowering tax rates for large corporations as long as you offset them with equal amount of reduction in various deductions that they can take advantage of. The cost of this tax cut should be optimally zero for the Treasury. I'm for one-time repatriation of foreign capital to USA at a low tax rate.



This country needs to changing its mentality to health care. Introduce Canadian style or UK style system. If you want private insurance, go ahead and buy it, however, everyone needs to be covered because at the end of the day the tax payers end up paying for the people without insurance as well. Sell them on cost benefit of this, not the compassion side. People are more receptive to dollars and cents scenario rather than caring what happens to a guy in Appalachia or Detroit.



Also, stop all illegal and limit the legal immigration to 200K for people with master's degree or higher only. If the cost of strawberries goes up because their is no people left to pick them, so be it. At the end of the day, the lower supply of workers and higher wages will more then offset any inflation caused by that.



We need to invest in infrastructure, technical education and job retraining. Infrastructure is obvious and bi-partisan issue. Not everybody will or needs to go to college...introduce Germany style apprenticeship system. There are still and will be a lot of semi-skilled technical jobs out there. Lastly, offer up moving and retraining assistance...your plant job in Midwest was eliminated by robatization, well, we gone train you how to service this robot and give you an incentive to move to a different part of country where there is demand for this type of skill.



Yes, I know your probably saying good luck with that with Trump in office but my response is that we need to take ideas from both sides of aisle that can potentially work rather then follow blindly the "Holy Grail" of Neoliberalism or Social Democracy. The world is never black or white, rather gray and so should be our economic and political policies. I'm not arguing for closing ourselves to the world, however, this complete openness to their entire world doesn't work either.