Maastricht Treaty revisions needed?

[kandrathe]

As should be obvious, the largest sum is tax breaks, and there are also plenty of other substantial parts, including infrastructure and education.

So, "the bulk" of the stimulus bill was not bailing out states. That's just factually wrong. It wasn't even the largest single part. It makes up less than 1/6 of the whole bill.

Here is a better source to see the details.

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More than 1/6 is going to offset state costs, like the money under taxation which is going to refurbish schools. That would otherwise be a state, or local tax payer cost. The simple bubble breakdown doesn't show how the money will be used.

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That's a little vague to solve a famously insoluble problem. Everyone wants to "promote employment". The specifics are a little hazier. And then there's that unfortunate relationship between employment and inflation...

I'm all for education and training, but expecting that to solve the problem of poverty is dreaming in technicolor. Unemployment is not 10% in the US because employers suddenly found their employees to be undereducated.

Poverty is a primary results of un- and under-employment. Focusing on how to get most people, who are able, employed at a rate above the poverty level will resolve the problem of poverty. We live in a global market. There is no reason why we can't get close to full employment in the US, if we would allow it.