Posted on 01/27/2008 4:29:43 PM PST by DWar
What does that mean?
Just what it says.
MR: I think the indication of the house vote indicates that most American’s are of the point of view that Internet only taxes of the type you describe are not something we want to see. I have a specific position on that issue, but I do not want to see internet only taxes as you described them or access fees or email charges and so forth. We do enough taxing in this country and let’s not add more taxes. I’d rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.
MA: It seems like along general party lines the Republicans wanted a permanent ban and Democrats wanted something less than that and they compromised on 7 years. Do you have any particular position on whether the ban should be permanent?
MR: Well I think it makes more sense to make it permanent. I think the Democrats recognized that if they do it every 7 years then they can go out and get contributions from companies that care and then vote for it every 7 years. It’s an old political ploy which is bring it back for a vote regularly and go back and hit people up for contributions…
They all doublespeak and pander.
Even Fred was for amnesty before he was against it.
We can either support the guy MOST LIKELY to lead in a conservative direction or we can stay home and cry about how unfair it all is and let Hillary become Queen.
Politics is the art of compromise not the math of the ideologue.
The ideologue will never win on any issue because he is too focused on purity. (see my tagline)
BTW, I don’t think “anti-internet-tax” (which is a great position) is the same as being for the rights of states to charge sales tax on items their own citizens purchase over the internet.
Your post brings up a very important message -- because I would NEVER vote for myself for President.
The point being, a candidate's position on the issues is only PART of the package when picking a candidate, and in some cases may not even be the BIGGEST thing to worry about.
You need someone who can DO the job. If they can't do the job, who cares if they are right on the issues. Then you need a person who can apply their beliefs correctly -- it doesn't do much good to be "right" on their thinking, if they have no ability to translate that into policies that work.
Vote for celebrity, it’s a free country.
Not real hot on his H1-B position, as I feel the whole program is basically a scam to bring in cheap labor for tech employers. There’s no shortage of tech talent in this country.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960485/posts
He apparently wants to tax internet sales, according to this.
Look at the dates.
He changed his mind on the issue in 2007.
Vote your principles, either by voting third party, writing in a true conservative's name.
Might as well just vote for Hillary or Obama and avoid the pretense. The effect will be the same.
“I have a specific position on that issue, but I do not want to see internet only taxes as you described them or access fees or email charges and so forth. “
No, I don’t think he changed his mind. The statement above has room in it for state-based sales taxes of net transactions, he just didn’t bring it up.
Plus, if he calls it a “transaction fee to support commiunications infrastructure”, it’s not a tax at all.
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