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American Resources For American Jobs, Revenue and Prosperity
By Paul Driessen
8/6/2011 

A frequent refrain during budget and debt ceiling debates is that we need revenue enhancement: higher tax rates, reduced deductions, eliminated credits. But doing this, especially amid today’s massively expanding regulations, will kill more jobs and further reduce government revenues. 

There is a better way. Huge revenue sources are literally under our noses, or more precisely our feet. 

America is blessed with vast oil, gas, coal, uranium, rare earth and other natural resource riches – to compliment our ultimate resource: the creative, competitive, innovative spirit of our people. 

Finding and developing these resources would generate millions of jobs and billions, even trillions, in new government revenue and societal wealth. It