Posted on 01/19/2009 4:37:26 AM PST by markomalley
If the conservative movement is looking for a new standard-bearer, a new champion, I suggest Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert. He's a new hero of mine, the kind of independent Texan who makes the Nugent family proud to be residents of the last best place in the last best place.
Unlike Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wants to toss the second installment of the $350 billion taxpayer dollar bailout at Wall Street and hope that this massive wad of cash sticks and does something positive for the economy, Gohmert, a Tyler Republican, instead wants to give Americans a two-month tax holiday. He also advocates that taxpayers should pay no federal income taxes for 2008. That's right, a two-month, $350 billion tax holiday and no income taxes for 2008. This would be massive wads of your money staying in your pockets where it belongs, surely doing more for the sagging economy than using it to bail out Wall Street or the automotive industry. I suggest a monument to Gohmert on the Capitol Mall for these great ideas. Of course, Fedzilla enablers such as Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reject Gohmert's proposal because they believe government knows how to better spend your money than you do. Gohmert understands that reducing the size of government is the key to an American economic revival. Federal income taxes, FICA, state income taxes, death taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, permit taxes, license taxes, registration taxes, hidden taxes, etc., are what is killing the American economy. When the government takes half of what we earn, it is not surprising that Americans are not saving anything. Tax cuts are always the answer to jump-starting the economy. It appears even President-elect Obama is beginning to see that simple economic truism. Taxpayers are partially to blame for the financial mess created by Fedzilla. We have sat idly by and drank the bureaucratic Kool-Aid and slowly surrendered our financial independence to big-government bureaucrats. We should have been snarling watchdogs of the bureaucrats with our tax dollars stuffed in their bloated wallets. If Obama is the new political messiah to millions of Americans who do not know how the economy works or why tax cuts are always good for the economy, then Congressman Gohmert is a new superhero to millions of Americans. They want to return tax dollars to the people who earned them. Thomas Jefferson said it best; "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Ya think? What America needs now more that ever is more elected officials like Gohmert. He understands that individuals and businesses are the engines that drive our economy, not a bloated, ineffective, lethargic, wasteful Fedzilla that destroys everything it touches. More government bailouts and spending are not the answer. They are the problem. |
Well Ted, Obama is not into tax cuts. A tax cut is a socialist handout on a one time basis to the fools that voted for him.
I figure within two weeks after the grand coronation, the Bush tax cuts will be stripped and those “tax cuts” to the middle class will go too. Clinton did it and so will Obama.
After all, we have to sacrifice for the good of all. /s
Neal Boortz had a great column about this too. I can’t find it.
Ted Nugent is my Republician super hero!
I like Ted too. He is wrong about Obama and real tax cuts though.
This idea will surely fall on deaf ears, the tax and spend party is back in town.
Care to elaborate?
Are you saying that tax cuts are socialist handouts or are you saying that what Bronco Bomber is calling a tax cut is, in fact, just a socialist handout on a one time basis to the fools that voted for him.
I thought Ted and his family were legal residents of Michigan? Isn't his ranch in Texas vacation property?
If you had some land in TX, would you remain a resident of MI?
Ted is one GREAT American!
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What you said is what I meant and I thought I said that.
I will do better next time! LOL
Gohmert is my congressman. He is a great guy. I hope he gets more ‘notice’.
As soon as Texas enters it's 9 month brown season, I would be very happy I still have my land in Michigan to return to. I also remember hearing that Ted is a deputy sheriff in his home(Michigan)town.
“I would like Ted Nugent to put his money where his mouth is! Come on Ted, make a run for Governor of Michigan!!!”
Ted moved to Texas.
This “two-month tax holiday” is the most hare-brained idea I’ve seen in awhile. IN FACT, all it is is a one-sixth tax cut for the year 2009. That’s fine, as far as it goes. But because it’s TEMPORARY, it’s not a supply-side tax cut. Economically, it’s exactly the same as mailing out checks or printing up money and dumping it from helicopters. It would accomplish NOTHING GOOD.
What’s really appalling is how many “conservatives” have been touting this crazy, destructive idea.
Just CUT TAX RATES PERMANENTLY, or BETTER YET:
Repeal the 16th Amendment and abolish the IRS.
We threw the first 350 billon at the banks, but we still have a problem with the 350 billion in bad mortgages.
Had we given the money to the putative home owners, the homeowners would be in their homes, the banks would have the cash to lend elsewhere, and the gov't would be out $350B.
Now, the gov't is out 350B, the homeowners are still facing bankruptcy, the banks are still going under.
Think of the tax holiday as an 'Indian Summer', a last chance to store something up for the hard times sure to come under Obama.
I wish he would, too. But, I think he enjoys his present residence way too much to move back to Michigan. However, his columns are always a treat.
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