[hinckley buzzard]

I figure, Sarah laid out her platform yesterday. If another candidate has the sense to authentically adopt it, she will endorse that one and not run, because she won't have to.

[Artcore]

Sarah Palin: Hasn’t even announced she’s running, and ALREADY SETTING THE DISCUSSION!

Run Sarah Run!!

[SoConPubbie]

Open?

Wow, what strength!

[Mariner]

""What we would have to do then is re-jigger other elements to define revenue and what revenues would be needed to the economy," Bachmann told CBS' Bob Schieffer."

Is Bachmann really this stupid? Revenues to the "economy"?

Or perhaps a Freudian slip...from her perspective the government IS the economy.

[tsowellfan]

Bachmann lost me when she looked at Obama’s fake BC and said “well, I guess, that settles it.”

[going hot]

Campaign slogan: I am open to new ideas. Got any?

[PapaBear3625]

As a start, they could exempt from taxation dividends paid to American entities, and stop the double taxation of dividends (once to the corporation, then again as income to the recipients)

[LaybackLenny]

[Free Vulcan]

Eliminate corporate income (c and s corps) and capital gains taxes to make ourselves more competitive.

Flat tax for personal income. We could phase-in with Fred Thompson’s plan as an optional thing with two levels and ultimately go to one.

At the same time find a way - such as a national sales tax - to broaden the tax base by spreading the burden onto imported goods and services - giving all an equal burden.

Domestic production and sales should have an equal if not favored tax position. Thinking primarily about oil drilling and sales.

[ziravan]

I’ve been advocating elimination of corporate taxes for years. It’s a key component of the Fair Tax.

[Kleon]

I’d like to see Bachmann expand on these ideas and offer a firmer position. She has the smarts to be a real leader on taxes among the Republican candidates.