Reads like McMahon and Blumenthal won’t attend if I’m included:

Not all the candidates for Senate will be debating

By David Collins
Publication: The Day

 
Now that a final schedule of televised debates for Connecticut’s Senate race seems to be coalescing, it is becoming clear to the two independent candidates on the ballot that they are not going to be included.

 
Warren Mosler, the exotic car manufacturer who petitioned his way onto the ballot as the candidate for the The Independent Party, sent out a cheery press release last week saying he had been accepted by the vetting committee of the League of Women Voters to be included in their Senate debates.

 
Alas, a spokesman for the group explained to me this week that it is having a hard time getting commitments from other candidates and a broadcast television partner.

 
So far, there are officially no televised League of Women Voters Senate debates for Mosler to be included in.

 
I suspect, from what I heard from the league, that the major party candidates, Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Linda McMahon, would not want to participate in a debate in which they would share the stage with the two minority party candidates who are also on the ballot.

‘Paying for’ the Extension of the Bush Tax Cuts Negates the Benefits of Extending Them

Middletown, CT. – September 21, 2010 – Warren Mosler, Connecticut’s Independent Party Candidate for US Senate, says that his opponents, Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Linda McMahon, have shown that, in this time of economic emergency, they are unqualified for the job of U.S. Senator by agreeing with each other that tax cuts in one place need to be ‘paid for’ by raising taxes in another.

“We are in a financial emergency. This is not the time for amateur hour. Richard Blumenthal and Linda McMahon’s belief in need to ‘pay for’ any tax cuts is backwards. It works to destroy jobs, not create them. ‘Paying for’ extending the expiring Bush tax cuts would prevent the creation of millions of badly needed jobs,” says Mosler, an internationally renowned financial and job creation expert. “If you need heart surgery, don’t let any of us do it. But if you want 20 million new, good paying private sector jobs, I’m the professional with the experience and knowledge to get it done.”

Virtually every serious economist, from Arthur Laffer on the right to Paul Krugman on the left, understands that, in today’s fiat currency system, the practical purpose of Federal taxes is to regulate the economy like a thermostat, not to raise dollars to fund programs like it was back during the days of the gold standard. “We need 20 million new jobs yesterday! This is not the time for the Federal Government to be taking extra money out of this economy by raising taxes of any kind,” Mosler emphasized.

Mosler has also been proposing a full payroll tax (FICA) holiday for employees and employers since August 2008 when the economy first started to go into recession. After two years of economic decline, leading economists are finally beginning to recommend it, and President Obama today indicated he would also be open to that suggestion. Mosler believes that Washington needs to stop pursuing the failed top down approach of funding the banks and insurance companies with trillions of dollars, and instead, create jobs with his bottom up approach of a full payroll tax holiday.

About Warren Mosler

Warren Mosler is running as an Independent. His populist economic message features: 1) a full payroll tax (FICA) holiday so that people working for a living can afford to buy the goods and services they produce. 2) $500 per capita Federal revenue distribution for the states 3) An $8/hr federally funded job to anyone willing and able to work to facilitate the transition from unemployment to private sector employment. He has also pledged never to vote for cuts in Social Security payments or benefits. Warren is a native of Manchester, Conn., where his father worked in a small insurance office and his mother was a night-shift nurse. After graduating from the University of Connecticut (BA Economics, 1971), and working on financial trading desks in NYC and Chicago, Warren started his current investment firm in 1982. For the last twenty years, Warren has also been involved in the academic community, publishing numerous journal articles, and giving conference presentations around the globe. Mosler’s new book “The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy” is a non technical guide to the actual workings of the monetary system and exposes the most commonly held misconceptions. He also founded Mosler Automotive, which builds the Mosler MT900, the world’s top performance car that also gets 30 mpg at 55 mph.

The republicans realized their blunder and it now looks like they are maybe coming around?

And, unfortunately, the deficit myths continue taking their toll as both sides agree federal spending must be ‘paid for.’

If there is any good news from Mr. Boehner and other Republicans, it is that they suddenly want to seem eager to shed their reputation as the Party of No. This week, they suggested that they might be open to some of Mr. Obama’s ideas, which include a $50 billion initial investment to create jobs improving roads, rail lines and airports — as long as those projects were not paid for by taxing billionaires, oil companies and other wealthy corporations. That, of course, is just how Mr. Obama intends to pay for them — and just how he should.

From The New York Times
EDITORIAL: Debating the Economy