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maybe Gingrich’s plan for “job creation” is the one that Laffer touted earlier this year in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, in which he suggested that “enterprise zones” be created in inner-cities, establishing a bunch of mini-Saipans within the United States where all of the labor practices we’ve come to know and enjoy would be suspended: no payroll taxes (and big giveaways to corporations whether they headquartered in the “zone” or not), no minimum wage, no union organization, and no “codes, regulations, restrictions and requirements” that “unjustifiably impede economic growth” (or, in other words, no codes, regulations, restrictions or requirements that keep laborers alive). Profits earned by those who don’t have to live in these laissez-faire hellscapes would be taxed at a discount, of course.