Posted on 07/03/2007 6:46:34 AM PDT by RobFromGa
I agree that Tancredo will become more popular. In a June 23 straw poll, in Linn Co., IA, the second-most populated county in Iowa, the winner was Tommy Thompson, with 33%. The other results were: Brownback, 30%; Tancredo, 15%; Romney, 5%; John Cox (a conservative Chicago busniessman), 4%; Paul, 3%; Fred Thompson, 3%; Gilbert, 2%; Giuliani, 2%; Hunter, 1%; Huckabee, 1%; and McCain, 0%.
Thanks for the poll, Rob!
Guess some folks we know will be in a very bad mood today. :)
How hard it is for everyone to pay a fixed percent. Much the same way Christians are to give 10% of their earnings in a tithe. If everyone had to pay a set percent it would be fair to everyone.
I should have read your ENTIRE post more carefully. Please ignore my first post to you.
Thanks, ontap.
If Romney can’t win Iowa and New Hampshire, and do so convincingly, then he isn’t going to be viable for long.
Thompson. I think you have mis-read my post. Lazy. Insider-outsider. Boomlet. All desciptions of Thompson from the media.
I agree with you, but the problem with a fixed percent is that we have almost 50% of the people paying close to nothing now, and they all get the same vote as the 50% that are footing the entire bill. Actually the top 10% are footing more than half the bill.
So, any tax plan has to buy off the lower income, non-tax-paying folks. The FairTax does this by putting every American man, woman and child on the monthly dole with a shiny government check every month whether they purchase any taxable goods or not. EVERY AMERICAN on the dole.
And of course future politicians would use that socialist monthly check to social engineer and buy future votes. But FairTaxers would have you believe that in the world after the FairTax politicians will no longer be politicians. Yet another FairTax fraud.
You are exactly right! In the past when bills to give tax cuts were put forth the democrats argued that since some people paid no taxes they would be cheated out of a tax cut. Stupidity knows no bounds. Give a politician the right to hand out public funds and you can rest assure he’ll find a way to buy votes.
What are the chances that Fred would choose Rudy as his running mate?
When your guy says "The only poll that counts is the one on election day" you know its time to start drinking heavily.
LOL! Good one.
As in:
Fred is leading Rootie? I’m sure the LSM will jump all over this with both feet. /s
See how easy that is?
Absolutely.
It will take a constitutional inalienable right, not a pandering politician, to protect the wealth and property of citizens.
But none to-date have the courage or the foresight.
Not even the founding fathers could have imagined the massive loophole of taxation at the whim of every dimwit at every level of government.
I don’t see any sarcasm in his post!
There is no end to the miss use of public funds. I have long ago given up on controlling it. I now try as hard as I can to try and get my part. I am not particularly proud of that stance but I don’t know any other way to level the field. I am more than willing to give up any benefits I might be enjoying if anyone can bring and end to it.
If there was a set tax then the Govt. would have to learn to live on a budget and cut out some (a lot) of this B.S. spending but that will never happen so I guess it’ll never work.
I hope absolutely zero. I want to be able to vote for Fred if he wins the nomination.
Welcome to FreeRepublic, LF!
You’re not in Kansas anymore! ;^)
“I’m sure the LSM will jump all over this with both feet.”
Well, the NYTimes has been running hit pieces on Thompson.
Does that count?
Oh, Rudy would be a terrible president, but he’d be a great VP -— yeah one heart beat and all that -— but that’s happened, what twice?
He’s a fiscal conservative and strong on defense.
Keep him away from judge appointments and social issues, and he’d be fine.
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