Posted on 04/17/2007 6:25:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Rudy Giuliani would make a superb president. he combines Reaganesque vision with extraordinary attention to detail. He is strong on national security and also has the principles and policies to strengthen the economy. He is a tax cutter and a foe of the federal income tax's complexity.
He is a fervent free trader, much needed, as global protectionist pressures are rising. He has also demonstrated an antipathy toward unnecessary regulation. If Sarbanes-Oxley hasn't been amended by the time Giuliani takes office, he will push hard to remove its counterproductive elements.
While I disagree with him in certain areas--I am pro-life, and he is pro-choice--he has made it abundantly clear that he would appoint John Roberts/Samuel Alito-type judges to the federal bench.
Giuliani cut or eliminated 23 taxes. The top rate for the city income tax, for instance, was knocked down by 21%. The overall tax burden for a New York City resident went down a remarkable 17%.
During Giuliani's tenure the Big Apple's economy blossomed: 423,000 new jobs were created. More people were moving into the city than leaving it. That he achieved so much going against a generations-old spend-tax-welfare political ethos is astonishing.
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Great, thanks!
#62 is a keeper. The FR 6.1% RinoRudyBots sure do make a lot of noise don’t they.
Bernard Goldberg’s new book is called, “Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve”
Not with President Giuliani.
New York City is a better place in the wake of the Giuliani administration. By any measure.
the Republican “brand name” is fading fast - send up your run of the mill punch card issue Republican candidate in 2008, Hillary wins.
Even Rush now is saying it, he can’t be too vocal about it because Rush doesn’t like Rudy, and he doesn’t want to lose 25% of his audience overnight. But he also can’t ignore what I am sure the RNC insiders are telling him about Republican chances in 2008.
Cowards all. Better watch it. Hillary’ll get you. Boo!
You can keep it. And him.
fear is a great motivator sometimes. its not the most noble emotion, but it can be effective.
When you take money from Hugo, you do Hugo’s bidding. Rudy claims it was all about jobs but that’s just an botched effort at populism. Sorry, appealing to the peanut gallery won’t help here. Every compensated service of value to Hugo strengthens Hugo, otherwise he would not pay. Why doesn’t Rudy just forego that contract as anyone decent might?
The problem is this: Rudy DOESN’T THINK Hugo is a problem.
And just because YOU are late to awareness of Hugo and make claims that Hugo only got bad recently, don’t think he was. Hugo Chavez has been attacking America since 1998 and Rudy should have known this. He didn’t just get bad lately. Hugo’s efforts have risen sharply since 2002 and he has a vast propaganda budget being used to subvert America and win over ghetto dwellers through Cheap Oil. That’s a long long time to learn about what Hugo’s game is.
The whole thing stinks. Nobody should take Hugo’s money. You take the king’s penny you do the king’s bidding.
Defending conservative values, per the website's mission statement as written by the man you just posted your smarmy reply to is "paranoia?"
the desire to defeat Hillary and Bill Clinton - is a conservative value. one of the most important ones really.
Don’t fool yourself. There’s nothing noble or effective in caving to liberalism. Period.
Giuliani on Flat Tax: Just Kidding
Rudy Giuliani, fresh off winning the endorsement of Steve Forbes, now says he was just kidding when he said he thought the flat tax was a good idea.
“I didn’t favor it, I said something academic,” Giuliani said at a press conference in Florida on Saturday, in response to a reporter asking him why he had switched from opposing a flat tax to favoring it. “What I said was, and it was not a joke, but it was half-jocular, was if we didn’t have an income tax...what would I favor?
“First I would favor no tax,” he said laughing and turning to his wife Judith, who duly smiled back. “That would be my first position. My second position would probably be a flat tax.”
But, he said, the tax “would probably not be feasible.”
Someone should tell Forbes.
—Jason Horowitz
http://thepoliticker.observer.com/2007/04/giuliani-on-flat-tax-just-kidding.html#comments
Steve is very likable, but he’s such a pollyanna about others.
Nominating an equal or slightly lesser liberal running as a Republican is not the way to do it.
“Which was better than FairOpinion here who re-wrote the title “
Re wrote the date also to 6 days in the future...lmao
Your not confused.
You don’t like being referred to as swine that’s all.
I don’t blame ya.
“While I disagree with him in certain areas—I am pro-life, and he is pro-choice—he has made it abundantly clear that he would appoint John Roberts/Samuel Alito-type judges to the federal bench.”
Bull crap!!! There is no way in Haddes that I would take an abortion supporter at their word!
I am seriously disappointed in Steve Forbes. I want tax cuts and deregulation, too, but not at the expense of innocent babies! Shame on him!!
Forbes is a shrewed business man. In his position he can’t afford to misjudge people and he doesn’t.
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