Looks like a solid “B” or “B+” — a vast improvement over W on fiscal matters.
Other than Hunter, Paul and probably Tancredo, are any of the current GOP contenders better than Thompson on these tax-and-spend issues?
Strictly speaking on taxes and spending, and nothing else, Brownback is pretty good too, but I am not backing him.
pogo101 wrote: “Other than Hunter, Paul and probably Tancredo, are any of the current GOP contenders better than Thompson on these tax-and-spend issues?”
Actually, Hunter did not fare too well with the CFG:
“Since Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) is apparently going to explore the possibility of running for president in 2008, I thought I’d dig up some of his roll call votes. Like most Republicans, he’s strong on tax cuts, but he’s been part of the big government spending spree of the last 6 years. He also has a protectionist streak in him. Here are some of the more troubling votes:
NO on NAFTA
YES on No Child Left Behind
YES on Sarbanes-Oxley
YES on the 2003 Medicare Drug Benefit
NO on CAFTA
YES on 2005 Highway Bill
YES on the 527 bill (like most Republicans, he flip-flopped, having first voted NO on McCain-Feingold)
Hunter also went 0 for 19 on the Flake anti-pork amendments.
Despite being a member of the Republican Study Committee, Hunter frequently votes NO on their fiscally conservative annual budgets (2006, 2005, 2003...)
We gave him a 49% on the 2005 Club for Growth scorecard. That places him 187th within the House GOP conference, out of roughly 230 members.
National Taxpayers Union shows a more telling trend. He was strong in the early 1990s, getting ‘B’s and one ‘A’, but as time went by, like most politicians, his score dropped. For the past few years, he’s been getting ‘C’s.”
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2006/10/duncan_hunters_voting_record.php