[OPE] Michael P, An Alternative Bailout Plan

Michael Perelman, "An Alternative Bailout Plan"An Alternative Bailout Plan
by Michael Perelman
Instead of giving a couple trillion dollars to the financial institutions, how about instituting a financial holiday -- something like what FDR did -- and using the trillions of dollars to create infrastructure and affordable housing?

We could also raise some more money by ending the wars and cutting back military spending.

Some of the money would be left over to create national health care, alternative energy, and tuition support.

If we needed more money beyond that, we could raise taxes. With all the spying on ordinary people, the NSA must certainly know where the fat cats are hiding their money in tax shelters.

Sure, there would be problems. People would need access to their money to get groceries and the like before the jobs were online. But the plan suggested here seems no more outrageous than rewarding the felons for their crimes.

Something patched together by the Treasury this quickly is sure to do more damage than any outrageous suggestions made above.

 This modest proposal first appeared in his blog Unsettling Economics (URL: <michaelperelman.wordpress.com/>) on 22 September 2008.
URL: mrzine.monthlyreview.org/perelman290908.html

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