A Conservative Look at Perry’s Economic Plan

Red State ^ | 10/25/11 | Daniel Horowitz

[ChiefJayStrongbow]

I said two percent, not twenty. It’s my plan times 10.

[Ron C.]

"Watch out, as discussed here on FR many times before, Red State is an Establishment Republican site..."

Thanks for the 'watch out' heads-up - but I must disagree wholeheartedly. These guys are hard-core conservatives that I find little to disagree with. Take a good look at who runs the place - look them up, read about them. Here's the names to google-around with:

Josh Trevino, Ben Domenech, Mike Krempasky, Erick Erickson and Clayton Wagar.

You'll find what I did - they are hard-working conservatives, doing much more to advance conservatism in politics than most.

Yeah, there are those out there that don't like anything but 'Palin-pure' candidates - sit out elections and let the Democrats win, because they didn't have a perfect candidate to vote for in the election. That's the kind of suicidal thinking that gave us Obama. No thanks.

I vote conservative locally and in primaries - but when it gets around to the general election, I vote GOP. I had to hold my nose when I voted for McCain - but I voted. Many FR posters (and other suicide voters) bragged about voting for sure losers - thank them for Obama.

[fightinJAG]

Perry’s plan is nowhere near “bold.” Sorry.

[Utmost Certainty]

"a career politician" ?? - Gee, hasn't this nation elected 'career politicians' more often than anything else?

Relative to recent history, yeah it has. An entire culture of career politics has been spawned for decades, and it's nigh time it ends.

[fightinJAG]

My reaction exactly.

I’m going to try to slog through this b.s., just to know what’s out there, but golly.

And I love the pretentiousness in titling his piece “A Conservative Look at Perry’s Economic Plan.” Setting it up so that if you disagree with the author, tsk tsk, you ain’t “conservative.”

Typical.

Whatever.

Perry’s plan builds in more bureaucracy and more compliance costs, all the while it does nothing to broaden the tax base or make the system more politically accountable.

[fightinJAG]

I don’t see in there where Rush said he really liked the Perry plan specifically.

[fightinJAG]

It’s not playing it safe — it’s weaselly!

[Diogenesis]

Romney is a JOKE. He is hated by the GOP majority.
but beloved by JOKERS.

ROMNEY is NOT the FRONT RUNNER. He has not won a poll
since his fake push polls.

And the authors are RINOs. 100% RINO.

"I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

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"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

[DJ MacWoW]

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"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

[itsahoot]

That's the kind of suicidal thinking that gave us Obama. No thanks.

Not really, the kind of thinking that led you to make that statement is what got us Obama. Keep letting the media and the RINO establishment pick our candidate, and you will keep getting the same result.

The world is near collapse and we point to more of the same as a solution? Not going to happen this time.

[fightinJAG]

Here's what Rush said specifically about the plans:

What we're talking about here is a return to sanity. Herman Cain's plan does it. Perry's plan at least gets us talking about it.

from here (freeper, not Rush, headline)

[fightinJAG]

Here's what Rush said specifically about the plans:

What we're talking about here is a return to sanity. Herman Cain's plan does it. Perry's plan at least gets us talking about it.

from here (freeper, not Rush, headline)

[not2worry]

Do as I Say Not as I Do Perry-

Cutting Entitlements - like the In-State-Tuition Entitlement Program in Texas?

It’s not free! It is taxpayer subsidized; the illegals pay less than United States Citizens and the tuition the illegals has to come from their illegal parents taking someone’s job in Texas.

Further insight from Aggies from Texas A&M -

Petition Governor Perry to Call Special Legislative Session to End In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants

The Honorable Rick Perry
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711

Dear Governor Perry:

I am deeply disappointed that Texas tax dollars are being used to subsidize the college tuition of illegal immigrants in the state of Texas. The Texas government, especially in these troubling economic times, should not be subsidizing the higher education of adults who cannot legally work in the United States.

Governor Perry, I request you to immediately call a special session of the Texas Legislature in order to end the policy of providing in-state tuition and financial aid for illegal aliens at Texas public universities.

Thousands of United States citizens are currently paying $20,000/year more than illegal immigrants to attend college in Texas; illegal immigrants are also receiving tuition waivers and state financial aid. As a candidate running for the office of President of the United States of America, I ask you to put the interests of American citizens before the interests of citizens of foreign countries, especially those foreign citizens residing in the United States illegally.

Please end this unfair policy, which harms American students and rewards criminal behavior.

Sincerely,

SOURCE - www.aggieconservative.org

[DustyMoment]

It’s pretty hard to get energized about another new tax plan. Pretty much EVERY presidential candidate for decades has presented their own tax proposal that may or may not get them elected.

Somehow, though, none of those tax plans ever seem to get enacted or even submitted to the Congress for a vote. NEVER!!!

So, for all the hoopla about Cain’s and Perry’s and whomever’s plan, at the end of the day, regardless who wins the election, Congress is not going to change the current mess of 70,000+ pages of tax insanity that make us the laughingstock of the world!! They’re just too attached to their loopholes and minutiae to care how it actually works!!

Besides, as we have seen time and time again, only conservatives pay taxes - NOT the Democrat thieves who wrote the tax mess!!!

[grey_whiskers]

All the high earners will go with the 20% plan instead of what they pay now.

All the low earners will stay on the current play where they still owe nothing.

The middle class will have to take up the slack; or else the US govt. revenues will plummet.

Perry is every bit as bone-crushingly stupid as he sounds during the debates.

I think he came with Windows ME pre-installed...

Cheers!

[Prokopton]

"a career politician" ?? - Gee, hasn't this nation elected 'career politicians' more often than anything else?

Yes and that's what's gotten us in this deep hole we're in. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is a sign of insanity. Enough! No more professional politicians.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Policy is policy. It’s not patented. You don’t have to elect a guy to get his policy; anybody can try to pass any bills they want.

If Romney decided 9-9-9 was a good plan, he could run on a platform to implement it if he wanted.

In reality, the President doesn’t need to come up with any plans; they have to be able to recognise good plans.

That’s why nobody cares that Laffer, Lowrie, and Moore wrote Cain’s plan, or that Forbes played a big role in Perry’s plan, or that Perry’s plan looks someone like Gingrich’s plan, which is just a variant on the Forbes’ plan.

When Cain says “build the fence”, nobody says “hey, that was someone else’s plan, he’s stealing it”.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Only in the political process could we have so many otherwise sane people arguing that we need unqualified people to fix our problems.

My pipes are leaking. No More Professional Plumbers!!

My car broke down. No More Professional Mechanics!!!

Our army is bogged down. No More Professional Soldiers!!!

Our company is struggling — No More Business Professionals!!!

I’m betting that whoever loses the world series in the next few days isn’t going to replace their pitching staff with amateurs.