A reader doesn’t like some of the Republicans’ ideas presented earlier today (actually, the two he cites came from Meg Whitman and Mitt Romney), but he offers an interesting proposal of his own:

1. If you care about private sector jobs, then do something sensible like suspending the employer contribution to FICA. That will not only help the handful of businesses that are looking to expand but also the other 99.9% of businesses that are faced with laying off workers to cut costs
2. By all means eliminate the capital gains tax. But eliminating it only for people with no money to invest at a time when any possible gains are years in the future – by which time the tax will have been resurrected – is not a stimulus to anything other than party switching out of the GOP.