Daniels: Tax hikes might be necessary (Mitch - 'we need to be grownups about it')

gop12.com ^ | Saturday September 11, 2010

[Bigtigermike]

From Andrew Romano's great new profile of a Mitch Daniels he portrays as pragmatic and principled (kind of oxymoronic, but one of Daniels' principles appears to be pragmatism).

To wit, his suggestions:

Let’s raise the retirement age, he says. Let’s reduce Social Security for the rich. And let’s reconsider our military commitments, too.

When I ask about taxes—in 2005 Daniels proposed a hike on the $100,000-plus crowd, which his own party promptly torpedoed—he refuses to revert to Republican talking points.

“At some stage there could well be a tax increase,” he says with a sigh. “They say we can’t have grown-up conversations anymore. I think we can.”

[Bigtigermike]

Ok....what do you think?

[Nonstatist]

Cripes.

[BenLurkin]

Taxed Enough Already

[DLfromthedesert]

He’s toast. First, the GOP should focus on fiscal issues and table social issues.

Then, fiscal issues means raise taxes? He is not a social conservative, and now evidently he’s not a fiscal conservative.

[Lakeshark]

Steerike threeee!!!!!!!

He's outta there......

[funfan]

I say NO—cut spending please

[RachelFaith]

Can someone PLEAAAAAASE, toss this nincompoop under the bus... then back over him a dozen times... just to be sure.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, we could raise taxes, OR we could cut spending ...

It's always so tough to figure out which way the politicians will decide to go ...

[Al B.]

Groan, but he’s a darling in DC. Figures.

[smug]

Bye, Bye, Presidential possibilities.

[hinckley buzzard]

If he can cut spending in Indiana he can cut spending in Washington. According to this article all he is thinking of is ways to suck more money out of me and my kids.

[Oceander]

Nonsense on stilts. At the end of the day, it may be that, hypothetically speaking, we will have to raise taxes; however, there are way too many other things we can do first before that possibility can even be considered, let alone put into place.

I'll certainly go along with reconsidering most or all of the social entitlements - which are, by the way, where most of the budget goes to these days, our military commitments pale in comparison to those, which is simply another reason why somebody who wants to lead with a reconsideration of our military commitments first simply cannot be taken seriously.

Anyone who starts blathering on about raising taxes before they've actually managed to cut out the wasteful, uneconomic, economy-destroying, initiative-destroying social entitlement programs is nothing more than a neo-fascist mole.

[Tzimisce]

Do you realize our vacations are now only at half pay????

You greedy, worthless taxpayers need to open the spigot some more!

/sarc

[Pox]

How about immediately reducing the size and scope of the federal government first and foremost!

[Bigtigermike]

Remember when a lot of FReepers were giddy about Mitch? I asked then “do we really know much about Mitch? he is fiscal in some areas but he is unknown in a lot of other areas

[ansel12]

Is that wild? YES! Just weird, wild stuff. YOU ARE CORRECT,SIR!

Governor Palin leads the opposition to this Rockefeller branch of the GOP.

[dalebert]

stop the spending....take back the spending...

[acapesket]

only if he takes Huckadope with him!

[Clyde5445]

How about cut taxes and spending while at the same time drill for oil, natural gas and mine our nature resources.

I know it want happen IT’S a commonsense solution. DUH.

[SandRat]

Oooops....Mitch has been hitting the

hard again.