Rand Paul’s Plan To Drive The Final Nail In Detroit’s Coffin
More: Sen. Paul, Opponent of Detroit Bailout, to Unveil Plan to Fix City
Washington — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, who previously said Detroit would receive a taxpayer bailout “over my dead body,” will travel to the Motor City next month to offer his fix for the struggling city.
Paul, the Kentucky Republican and potential 2016 presidential candidate, will deliver his plan at the Detroit Economic Club on Dec. 6.
Paul last traveled to Michigan in September for the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, where he said he regretted his previous comments about Detroit made after the city’s July 18 municipal bankruptcy filing. At the GOP confab, Paul won the presidential straw poll and urged the Republican Party to be more inclusive.
In an interview in September with The Detroit News, Paul highlighted legislation he plans to introduce to help Detroit by forgiving federal personal income and corporate taxes as well as potentially payroll taxes in distressed cities to spur more hiring and attract new jobs. He said he intended to package the legislation as an effort with states that also forgive their taxes in targeted areas with high unemployment and poverty.
“Right now I think Detroit is in a downward spiral and something’s got to be done,” Paul said of his legislative effort in the September interview.
Paul will travel to Detroit to unveil the final touches on that legislative effort — further demonstrating his insistence Republicans need to build support by traveling to all neighborhoods — even those like Detroit that have been Democratic strongholds.
From The Detroit News: detroitnews.com
Yeah let’s eliminate all sources of municipal and state revenue! That should work!
What an asshat.