Clinton Unveils Proposal To Spur Growth In Economy Driven By Science

[billbuckhead]

Clinton Unveils Proposal To Spur Growth In Economy Driven By Science
By Sarah Lai Stirland April 02, 2008 | 8:28:09 PMCategories: Election '08

Senator Hillary Clinton on Wednesday unveiled a plan to bolster the economy by providing bigger tax breaks to companies that increase their research and development efforts in the United States.
The New York senator proposes to increase the corporate tax credit rate for companies that increase their spending on their research and development efforts to 30 percent of their R&D budget.
The previous federal R&D tax credit rate in the United States was 20 percent. That rate expired in December 2007, and lobbyists for technology and manufacturing companies are asking lawmakers to renew the scheme.
Stumping in Pittsburgh on the campaign trail, Clinton said that the plan would help to build "jobs of the future."
Among other things, the plan also calls on the federal government to provide annual matching grants of up to $500 million to state and local governments to create research centers, and for a brand new tax credit of 40 percent for basic research. The credit could include collaborative research between universities and corporations.
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[rodeodance]

1. REC

[cliffordu]

2. blinded by science...N/T

[rodeodance]

5. Thank you for your concern

blinded by science...N/T
Posted by cliffordu

[cliffordu]

15. Any time!!

:pals:

[rodeodance]

17. K and REC

[DBoon]

21. Beat me to it!

It's poetry in motion
She turned her tender eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
"She blinded me with science!"
And failed me in biology

When I'm dancing close to her
"Blinding me with science - science!"
I can smell the chemicals
"Science!"
"Science!"

- Thomas Dolby

[rodeodance]

3. Go on hillary---she is talking green tecnology and the jobs

[futureliveshere]

4. This is good stuff. Now if only we could trust her to do as she says...sigh!!!!

[rodeodance]

7. get over your childish snarky posts.

[futureliveshere]

11. I want to believe her. I really do. I think she has a lot of great ideas, but there is just too much

baggage that comes and hits me in the face EVERYTIME I try to forgive yet another mis-speaking or failed policy initiative.

[rodeodance]

12. try reading--really reading and understanding her. Those snarks are not

getting you or other BO fans anywhere except building up resentments.

[futureliveshere]

25. That is BS. The more I read (really read) the more HRC turns me off.

Sorry, but your remedy for my disillusionment with the Clinton's is actually the main reason for the disillusionment. Information today is much more easily available than the 1st Clinton presidency and Hillary has definitely had to pay the price for that.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Will she be discussing Clinton's signing of the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999

that negated the Glass-Steagall Act which FDR had enacted during his tenure to keep banks from failing as they had back during the great depression?

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/clintons-legacy-has-caught-up.php

[rodeodance]

13. you wear me out bro.

[anonymous171]

6. She's trying to be Bill incarnate.

[rodeodance]

8. more disrupting of a positive post.

[anonymous171]

9. Wasn't negative. Just saying..

[rodeodance]

14. its not productive to a discussion.

[emilyg]

16. k/r

[kevinmc]

18. Why has Hillary not proposed such legislation while she has served in the Senate?

She has been in the Senate for over a full term, why didn’t she propose this years ago, or even more recently? And why didn’t she introduce the legislation to get the ball rolling?


I'll tell you why ....The reason Hillary Clinton didn’t do anything about this earlier is because she doesn’t believe in this kind of thing.


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[anonymous171]

19. She didn't do anything in the senate unless it was sure to pass.

That's why she did all the bi-partisan stuff. It was all to buff up her image for the presidential run.

[bhikkhu]

20. And yet the gap between saying it and doing it is not so great,

Whether as a senator or as a president. It is a good thing.

[JayFredMuggs]

22. by providing bigger tax breaks to companies

lobbyists for technology and manufacturing companies

Tax Breaks, and lobbyists

Sounds like a Rethuglican plan

[OneBlueSky]

23. a mere drop in a huge bucket . . . the only thing that will help this economy . . .

is cutting "defense" spending by about 50% (starting with ending the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations), investing heavily in a "Manhattan Project" to develop alternative energy sources and put them to use, and a commitment to end the nation's reliance on fossil fuels . . . anything less is just window dressing . . .

[blm]

24. That's odd - she wasn't for it in 2004 when Kerry was making that point. TeamClinton

managed to find cause to undermine the campaign and backstab Kerry at crucial points, so I wonder why she pretends she is for these advances NOW? Did she not think they deserved a good start in Jan 2005?

Was Jan 2005 too SOON to begin implementing these proposals?

Is that why the backstabbing?
http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13354

Is that why the constant and public support of Bush on Iraq?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/19/clinton.iraq/

Is that why Carville sabotaged Ohio's Dem voters?
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/oct/07/did_carville_tip_bush_off_to_kerry_strategy_woodward