I hope my candidate of choice, Sarah Palin, has some original solutions. Tell me if I’m wrong but I want to hear more than the “lower taxes” soundbite. That will not resonate enough to the desperate masses in 2012. And keep in mind I am a broken glass supporter (i.e. crawling over it to help her/vote for her).
you aren’t entirely wrong. I’m all about lower taxes but I get pretty tired of listening to multi-millionaire Republicans telling me how tax cuts for multi-millionaires will cure all that ails America while they ignore every other tenet of conservatism. I saw McCain stump here in Ohio with Lindsey Graham. Seemed like all he had top promise was that he would give rich people tax breaks. There were thousands of middle class conservatives in attendance listening to these two and the applause was mostly polite. The general consensus was pretty obvious on election night I think.
When businesses, particularly small businesses, are taxed heavily, money that previously might have gone into expansion and hiring goes to the government. And when big spenders like Obama are in office, the threat of ever higher taxes (and add to that the threat of providing health care for all employees) scares small businesses away from implementing growth plans.
This is the reason we saw (last week) a reported explosion in the hiring of temps. Small businesses want to grow, but Obama is standing in the way by painting a vision of the future which is unpredictable at best and downright unfriendly to business at worst.
Small business is the economic engine that provides most of the jobs and Obama is killing it.
High unemployment is ENTIRELY Obama's fault because he could fix this problem immediately by changing the business environment for small businesses. The fact that he has a strong dislike for small business and has NO understanding of economics and how to create a safe, predictable growth-oriented environment for small businesses IS the problem here.
Oh and BTW, another reason "cutting taxes" is important (and Obama doesn't understand this either) is that it isn't "taxes" that are cut, it is "tax rates".
Reducing "tax rates" to optimum levels actually causes an increase in "tax revenues," not a reduction.
When you count the underwhelmingly low rate they pay for incomes below the national median income, EIC, AFDC, EBTs, SSI, and all of the other 'grants' and special assistance programs set aside for them, all they have to gripe about are payroll taxes (SS and Medicare). And, for that, the remedy is upping your deductions - why not, there's no penalty for them - they get money back!
He has to be hit on his miserable economy and joblessness. He has to be hit on healthcare; scare the blue hairs to death about his death panels. They have to worry about having to eat cat food in order to save enough for their medicine "if" the government will allow them to have it
He has to be hit on terrorism (or his lack of its definition and admitting it exists). He has to be hit on GM and Chrysler and the loss of union jobs (we must all NOT buy any GM or Chrysler product)- Buy Ford.
Lastly, he has to be hit on religion, his Muslim leanings and submission to thereof. He's not a Christian, doesn't go to church, doesn't respect our nation, our troops, or our way of life, period. He needs to be shown for what he is.