Posted on 02/23/2015 12:18:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One of the more memorable moments during the last presidential campaign was a GOP debate in August, 2011. Fox’s Bret Baier asked the eight candidates if they would agree to $1 in new taxes for every $10 in spending cuts. Not one person raised his (or her) hand. Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Richard Nixon—all tax hikers at one point or another during their presidencies—would have raised their hands, and might have been booed off stage. That’s how much the Republican party has changed.
Which brings us to Jeb Bush. During his eight years as governor of Florida (1999-2007), “King Jeb,” as some opponents dubbed him, cut taxes big time—$19 billion in all—and this in a state that had no income tax to begin with. But Bush, like his father, isn’t opposed to bringing in new revenue if the times call for it.
“If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we’re going to have $10 in spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement — put me in, coach,” he said while testifying to a Congressional committee in 2012. Which explains why he’s never signed the no-tax pledge that has been shoved down the throats of most other Republicans by Grover Norquist, the never-elected-to-anything anti-tax bully. Sign my pledge, Norquist threatens quivering Republicans—or we’ll campaign against you. The only major candidates with the cojones to reject this extortion have been Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
“I ran for office three times. The pledge was presented to me three times. I never signed [it]. I cut taxes every year I was governor,” Bush said. “I don’t believe you outsource your principles and convictions to people.”(continued)
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The only thing I fear is that we will again have no choice in this election because The Cheap Labor Express has paid for a amnesty candidate and will get it.
“Fear” isn’t the term I would use. More like “disgusted.”
Jeb too believes in radically changing this country.
Anyone with a brain should fear a third generation of Bushes.
The “far right” does not “fear Jeb Bush; it revulses at the prospect of having him chosen as the GOP candidate.
I will say it again: Jeb Bush will deliver the worst electoral defeat the GOP has seen in a generation, potentially doubling Mitt’s sit-out rate. He has as much appeal as used food.
And the far left pray for it.
Toenail fungus polls better than Jeb Bush amongst common sense conservatives and for good reason.
Turning down $10 of spending cuts because it came with $1 of tax increases would be pretty stupid, unless the candidate is against spending cuts, like a Dem.
It showed what a circus the GOP primary was in 2011.
And he WILL deliver it because he WILL be the nominee.
The only thing I fear about Jeb Bush is the high percentage of the Conservative base that will stay home on election day if he gets the nomination. Me included.
You mean “Success” like the other two Bushes?
At least used food is good for the garden.
Taxes needs to be at 19% GDP.
Spending needs to be at 17% GDP.
The two percent differential needs to be used to pay down the debt.
What happens is the Liberal wing of our party run’s one Amnesty loving big spender while we have 5 to 7 actual conservatives in the race. The liberal win’s 18% and gets all delegates under “winner take all” eventhough 82% of the party rejects the amnesty lover. The media writes it up “Bush wins again!!”
Because every time tax increases are traded for spending cuts, the tax increases come and the spending cuts don’t.
Write in the Constitution Party candidate!
Let's see. One resigned in disgrace. The other lost in disgrace, and third would NEVER have campaigned on tax increases. Never. If these turds in DC can point to one time where Reagan campaigned on higher taxes, I'd like to hear it.
In fact, he reluctantly signed on to one of these failed plans where taxes went up now for future promised cuts, and it was a horrible mistake. His decision to do it and GHWB's raised taxes are the very reason no candidate president would or should agree to such fascicle deals now. It's taxes now for non-existent cuts later. Cut 10% this year, and maybe a tax increase could be traded. Maybe.
Those circular firing squads need to end.
Oprime número tres por inglés.
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