Now, the nation has a playbook for solving all its problems (well, some of them). Jon Huntsman, Joe Lieberman, and the group they co-chair, No Labels, has issued a policy book with 60 answers to America's problems.
Refreshing.
Huntsman, Lieberman and crew drew on the wisdom they could find, and have compiled a wonderful playbook. "Policy Playbook for America's Next President," they title it. "No matter who wins the election, America will need to be ready with goals and ideas," says the first web page.
Some of the answers are admittedly too vague. Take the problem of the U.S. tax code being too complicated and cumbersome, No Labels' answer? "Simplify the tax code so that tax returns for at least 90% of taxpayers are limited to two pages." That would become a good answer, except it begs the question of how you are going to limit the tax return to two pages.
What about the national debt? How are we ever going to solve it? "At minimum, tax reform should be revenue neutral and ideally it would help reduce the federal deficit over time," says the No Labels playbook. That's an easy enough answer, but it, too, begs a question: Where are you going to cut, and what are you not going to fund?
Just to be sampling, here are a couple of No Labels' solutions:
Immigration? "Promote a path to earned legal status for illegal immigrants in the United States who meet strict conditions such as learning English, paying back taxes and passing rigorous background checks."
Failure to prepare students adequately for job opportunities? "Make computer science courses available to every middle and high school student by 2020. Many local efforts and partnerships are underway to make this possible. But to bring computer education to every school, these bottom-up efforts will need support from the federal government."
Bless the No Labels group for proposing answers. Would that we would weigh and consider the proposals -- and implement many of them. To read all of their suggestions, go to nolabels.org.
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