Newt Gingrich wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post outlining a GOP strategy for job creation. His basic premise:
The Democrats think they’ve found the perfect one-sided debate by presenting themselves as the party that opposes “outsourcing” of American jobs. They hope the Republican Party will be dumb enough to take the bait and be the side that favors outsourcing.
That kind of binary argument, in which the Republicans take the role of defending the loss of jobs overseas, would be a dead loser for the GOP. Republicans must set up a new, winning argument by focusing not on the loss of old jobs but on the creation of new ones.
Sounds good, until he issues the fighting words:
Republicans, therefore, should insist, as President Bush has, that real economic growth depends on the right tax incentives and litigation reform to create even more investment, so that the next multinational company will choose the United States as the place to open a new location or headquarters.
He better mean lowering taxes across the board and not just lowering taxes for big corporations who will continue to play municipalities against municipalities, states against states, and nations against nations, each individual corporation sticking up the taxpayers for subsidies and corporate welfare to provide a pittance of jobs which the rest of the smaller companies and individual entrepreneurs in the area will pay for.
No, wait, he’s a former politician. Of course he means the latter.
