RNC Chair on RUSH

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[Spiff]

Reagan's 1981 Recovery Tax Act and the 1986 Tax Reform Act gave working American's true tax reform. It created a two tier marginal tax rate system of 15% and 28%. It brought the highest tax rates from 70% to 50% to 28%. Reagan's tax reform efforts helped to pull the economy out of the Carter Malaise and set it on a positive growth course that lasted until the year 2000. Reagan's two tax reforms encouraged spending, investment and savings. It was a prime example of Supply Side Economics.

I'm doing my homework for the radio talk show thing. Can you give me a source for this information. Especially, the Reagan tax rate cuts... Thanks.

[Spiff]

I'm just wondering ... did you actually have a chance to listen to Gillespie on Rush's program?

I did. And I've read the transcripts. And at best he's defining "less government" and "the party of Reagan" and "cutting spending" down. And his comments about the the "lost" fight against the Dept. of Education amounts to "If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards." In the past week he's realized that no matter how much sugar coating he puts on the crap he's shoveling, it is still crap and it stinks.

[Reagan Man]

Go to Google and type in "1981 Recovery Tax Act" and Tax Reform Act of 1986". You will get many links to provide you with information on the subject matter. Also, try this one Policy Analysis:Supply Tax Cuts and the Truth About the Reagan Economic Record by William A. Niskanen and Stephen Moore

Best of luck.

[TradicalRC]

I think the argument can be made that if you want reform/smaller government, then voting for either of the two major parties is "throwing your vote away".

[Fraulein]

RINOs will not even act as if they are in the majority.

How very true.

[Fraulein]

“Those questions have been decided,” was his response.

Yikes! Scary. I guess coservative ideals are no longer even up for debate within the Republican party.

[Spiff]

Yikes! Scary. I guess coservative ideals are no longer even up for debate within the Republican party.

Wrong. They are up for debate - and the only thing up for debate is HOW we push our conservative ideals not IF we should push them. Please contact the RNC and let them know how you feel about Gillespie's comments. He needs to really feel the heat from the grassroots.

[viaveritasvita]

>>"...They're being told by their party that they can't win because they're conservative. If they have to give up principles and core beliefs to win, then there is no conservative message save one: that conservatives will give up principles and embrace choice liberal platforms to get the win."<<


That's it in a nutshell.

[viaveritasvita]

>>"FReep your Congreesscritters on a weekly basis."<<

I'm tired of doing this. I was on the phone this morning for about an hour ranting and raving to both my congressman's (Robin Hayes, 8th District, Concord, NC) and senator's (Eliz. Dole) offices (trust me, it was best that I didn't call the 'Rat Senator John Edwards the way I felt this morning!). Banging my head against a concrete wall.


>>"How has the wacko left moved their party so far off to the ozone that they can being willing to ignore the fact that we have been attacked in our homeland by a medival culture?"<<

We the people allowed it. They are so far leftie, they're off the chart. And the Republicans moved left, too, leaving those who steadfastly refused to move left to hang in the wind -- they marginalized us. The lefties not so much ignoring the attack as they think we deserved it.


>>"Another Perot is out there somewhere just waiting to bleed votes, and as much as it reviled me that he (Perot) put the Clintons in office, I am now beginning to understand how he got the votes to do it."<<

I don't think the fact that Perot ran put the clintons in office. Many people were thrilled to have a viable conservative candidate to vote for. I didn't vote for Perot, but he offered as much hope as I've ever seen for another alternative to the two-headed monster. No, what put the clintons in office was that Perot blew it! He couldn't take the heat. I'd give anything for a viable, conservative, independent (hate to use that word!) candidate to vote for.


>>"NOISE is what we can do! And don't give them another dime either unless they clean up their act. Save it for the Third Party thats out there somewhere."<<

I'll say again that I'm getting sick and tired of making noise (i.e. beating my head against a concrete wall until my rage is spent and other things demand my attention). The RNC has already been informed that they will get no more $$ from me until and unless they clean it up. Still looking for that viable 3rd party/candidate.


>>"If [there's no 3rd party]...the GOP doesn't straighten out, then we may be at the end time of the freedoms our forefathers gave us."<<

I have this horrible feeling that we're already at this point. The body has yet to hit the ground.


>>>So Bill Clinton lied with insulting obviousness and shook his finger at people in stern admonition, while Hillary laughed in people's faces and ridiculed them with the asinine assertion that Bill and she were victims of a vast right wing conspiracy. People sputtered for a while, but to the extent they were enraged it was like throwing themselves at a concrete wall. They beat themselves to pieces in anger while nothing changed and the Clintons laughed. ~ Robert L. Kocher<<<

[viaveritasvita]

Thanks for the link. I'll definitely read through it.

[viaveritasvita]

>>"The left has successfully convinced the culture at large that the old conservatives were a bunch of right-wing wackos, bigots and idiots."<<

Yes, and I'm beginning to think that the majority on the right has been convinced of this as well.

[BradyLS]

They have. Even Tom McClintock is finally putting out feelers suggesting that throwing the weight of his conservative base behind the Schwarzenegger supporters may be the best hope on October 7. Probably most California Repub licans s will be pleased, but to hear the Arnold camp on FR take the news, what "welcome" they are receiving in exchange for thir support ranges from cold to hostile. It's as if it were simply their due. They've forgetten that votes must be earned, not dispensed to the leaders in the straw poles.

[Coleus]

Neither can I. There aren't too many differences between democrats and repbulicans these days in terms of spening, govt. jobs and regulations.