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FirstQuaker -> RE: Las Vegas Republican Debate: Oct 18, 2011 (10/19/2011 10:55:03 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto I may be mis-quoting, but one of the things I always remember about Gingrich was the comment made by another Republican:quote:
Newt gets 1,000 ideas every day in his head. 1 is a great idea - and the other 999 are crap. Romney's tenure as Governor of my state, Massachusetts, was spent running for President, not serving as Governor. The last year of his Govenorship, he was hardly ever in the state - he was traveling the country campaigning for President. If you only have one ambition in your life - and you achieve that ambition - what do you do then? If he gets elected President - how will he spend his time during the last year of his term as President? Running for Emperor? Romney gave a detailed interview to a reporter from the Boston Globe early in his Governorship in which he said the only reason he got into politics was to prove to the American people that they had made a mistake not electing his father, George Romney, to the Presidency in 1968 instead of Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon. Romney's goal is not to serve his country and it's citizens - it is to get revenge on the United States of America for disrespecting his Dad. Do you really want to elect a person who is only running for office to get revenge against a slight on his family's "honor"? Cain's "9-9-9" program? Every dollar I earn by actually working for it (not because I inherited it from my parents or grandparents or got it by selling a stock or receiving a stock dividend but by actually working for it) gets taxed 9% - and then if I buy anything with it, it gets taxed 9% AGAIN? Why doesn't he just call it his "Working people pay 18% tax - drones pay nothing" program? If that were only the worst of Cain's tax plan . . . Start inspecting just which business expense and taxes he woudl dump and which ones he woudl keep. Basicly if you run a capital intensive business with few employees, you get tax breaks, where if you run a labor intensive buiness with low capital you get soaked. This will basically kill the service sector, and certainly won't help provide jobs, regardless of what Cain says. And you don't have to go further then some of the provinces in Canada or countries in the Commonwealth (never mind the EU) to see how his "sales tax" which should be correctly called a VAT is operated. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with a VAT . . . Some of the "conservatives" even are already grumbling. But yes, from the workers stand point the tax burden is going to hit wage and salary earners at the bottom of the pile the most. And from the business standpoint, you won't be doing any more hiring then you need to, and be encouraged to make big capital outlays. The only good thing is it will smoke imported things pretty well, as his VAT will hit them hard.
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