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Jeb Bush distances himself from GOP on taxes (wants to raise 'em)
CBS News ^ | June 1, 2012 | Rebecca Kaplan

Posted on 06/01/2012 6:16:07 PM PDT by Deo volente

(CBS News) Showing his willingness to break from his party, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said on Friday he would accept $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in revenue increases and criticized activist Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge that most GOP lawmakers have signed.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; jebbush; spendingcuts; taxes
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1 posted on 06/01/2012 6:16:11 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: Deo volente

Color me surprised. / not


2 posted on 06/01/2012 6:21:20 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: Deo volente

With “friends” like these, who needs enemies?


3 posted on 06/01/2012 6:21:30 PM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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To: Deo volente
Jeb, cut the marginal tax rate and revenue will increase.

But you evidently aren't really interested in revenue, but in control, just like your Democrat brethren.

4 posted on 06/01/2012 6:21:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Deo volente

It’s too simple for da Booshes.

Cut taxes = revenue up. A rising tide lifts all boats.

Who’s Jeb Bush, anyway?


5 posted on 06/01/2012 6:27:59 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Deo volente

Everyone knows the “spending cuts” would be fake. Starting 10 years in the future, based on reductions to scheduled increases, etc.


6 posted on 06/01/2012 6:28:09 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A has-been before he ever was.


7 posted on 06/01/2012 6:28:09 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Deo volente

The entire Bush family can’t be trusted. Bush Senior, George Bush and now Jeb Bush.


8 posted on 06/01/2012 6:28:29 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Deo volente

Jeb Bush’s time is over - he could win a Senate seat, I’m sure, but I don’t see him making any such move.

Shame - I voted for him twice & he was a fairly good governor, infinitely better than the liberal trash here that rises to the top of the pond scum from time to time...


9 posted on 06/01/2012 6:28:41 PM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Deo volente

Jeb, irrelevant and stupid is no way to go through life.


10 posted on 06/01/2012 6:29:32 PM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemies of freedom. Be Andrew Breitbart.)
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To: Deo volente

Hey Jeb ... go tell your mommy that we won’t play with you.


11 posted on 06/01/2012 6:33:45 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: 4rcane

Jeb’s wife - isn’t she the one who tried to smuggle tens of thousands of dollars of designer clothes into the country? Yes, a real sterling character.


12 posted on 06/01/2012 6:36:28 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Deo volente

The name sounds familiar - isn’t he the guy the media tells me I’m excited about as future presidential material?


13 posted on 06/01/2012 6:39:57 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: ladyjane

I heard what he said on the TV, probably edited for CNN’s liking as they were trying to make it sound like he was clearly against Mitt. He made it clear that he cut taxes in Fla but would not sign Norquist’s pledge. Norquist was just looking for tv time. Not really worth anyone getting worked up. He ain’t getting selected for anything.


14 posted on 06/01/2012 6:40:45 PM PDT by Edison (I don't know what irks me more, the lying or the incompetence.)
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To: Deo volente
Thus evidencing the jack-assery that flows through the veins of members of the GOP-e. Of course, he would accept tax increases now for the promise of future "cuts" instead of cuts first.

no more bushes

15 posted on 06/01/2012 6:40:48 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Deo volente

Is he also for baseline budgeting? The budgeting would not have any real spending cuts.. a sham to fool people.


16 posted on 06/01/2012 6:42:25 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: Deo volente

Why does Jeb Bush get so much air-time?


17 posted on 06/01/2012 6:42:39 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Deo volente
"$10 in spending cuts for every $1 in revenue increases"

Revenue increases? You mean raising taxes!

Governor stop the lies!

Why do we need to increase taxes by 1 if we are going to reduce spending by 10? BECAUSE YOU KNOW THIS IS A LIE!

Stop the lies sir.

Washington does not need ANY more revenue, they need 100 times LESS.

18 posted on 06/01/2012 6:42:57 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Deo volente

Say what?? What happened to Jeb?


19 posted on 06/01/2012 6:48:33 PM PDT by Fawn (Rush Babe on Board.)
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To: Deo volente

Please, no more Bushes, at least for another generation or two.


20 posted on 06/01/2012 6:49:27 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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