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Dayton
Business Journal...
Forecast:
Economic growth tied to
election
Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 2:42pm
EDT
By Ginger Christ
The
cure for the country’s economic
ills is a presidential election, at least according to Ken Mayland,
president
of Pepper Pike-based ClearView Economics LLC.
Mayland,
who served as the keynote
speaker at KeyBank’s 2012 Economic Forecast Wednesday, said while he
doesn’t
expect the country to enter another recession, he doubts any measurable
improvement
in the economy will be seen until a new administration takes office.
The
economy, he said, has been
strangled by regulations:
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Housing policy designed to put
everyone in a house;
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Energy policy focused on green
initiatives and against offshore drilling;
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Health care policy extending health
care to everyone; and
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Fiscal policy designed to stimulate
the economy but which simultaneously worsens the national debt
situation.
Without
major changes, economic growth
likely will remain disappointing, Mayland said during his presentation
at
Dayton’s Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center.
To
improve the economy, Mayland
unveiled what he called the “ClearView Economics Plan.” The plan
involves:
killing the 2010 health care bill; reversing course on developing
domestic
energy; eliminating the minimum wage; repealing Dodd-Frank and
Sarbanes-Oxley;
reigning in the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Labor
Relations Board; passing free trade agreements (with countries like
Panama,
Columbia and South Korea); paring back unemployment benefits; and
trashing the
tax code in favor of a relatively flat tax.
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