Posted on 06/14/2012 8:11:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean blasted anti-tax rhetoric Thursday, arguing that Americans owed something back to the nation that created the world’s most successful economy.
In an appearance with Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus on CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report,” Dean took a shot at the businessman’s stance.
“You made a lot of money because you live in the United States of America,” he said. “We owe something to the government to grow up in this great country. I’m tired of hearing people in the private sector talk like they don’t owe the government anything. We do. This is a great country because we all pay into it. It’s about time we all pay into it.”
Dean also brought former President Bill Clinton — recently praised for having lowered federal spending as a percentage of GDP, even amid higher tax rates — into the mix.
“If we paid the same amount of taxes we paid when Bill Clinton was president, I would be a happy guy, and the budget would be closer to balanced,” he said. “You cannot give away money, whether you give it to rich or poor people. That’s what George Bush did — excuse me, trillions of dollars. You can’t do that.”
Dean also ripped into presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
“Why turn the economy over to a guy who invests in the Cayman Islands, has a Swiss bank account and who’s advocating doing the same things which wrecked the economy in the first place, which is giving the Wall Street guys free rein to do whatever they want,” he said. “That makes no sense at all. I think the idea that Mitt Romney will be the next president — given the record of Wall Street and creating this mess — is laughable.”
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My thoughts precisely.
My question. With Dean’s so much concern about what other people give to this Nation it makes me want to know if he has ever put his life out on a limb for it. If not I can’t/won’t believe he has any right or propriety to affect my belief about this Nation in any way.
(arguing that Americans owed something back to the nation that created the world’s most successful economy.)
Hey DUMB ASS. It was not the “nation: that created the most sucessful economy it was the people. you know the ones you want to yax into oblivion. Jerk.........
If government was cut to the bone, Dean would have an argument that people have to give back. But when we’re paying for shrimp on treadmills, boondoggles to Vegas for the GSA and paying farmers not to grow, then it’s a hard sell that the government doesn’t have enough revenue.
Howard Dean should pour gasoline over himself and commit self-immolation to protest the tax stance of America. I’ll send him the match.
A match? Cheapskate! Send him a lighter.
I’d simply ask Dr. Dean to produce a list of Democrats (Hollywood and otherwise) who have sent in to the FedGov the amount of taxes they didn’t have to pay because of the Bush tax cuts.
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