"Don't be ridiculous. As president of Planet Spaceball, I can assure both you and your viewers, that there is absolutely no air shortage whatsoever."
Posted on 04/25/2007 10:18:46 AM PDT by areafiftyone
NASHUA – Former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani vowed to the state's business leaders that he would lower taxes if elected President.
Giuliani made his statement at the Business and Industry Association and New Hampshire Political Library's National Leader's Forum yesterday morning at the Sheraton Hotel. The forum, sponsored by Lincoln Financial Group, is intended to bring national leaders to the state to discuss business issues.
His call to lower taxes is one policy that Giuliani said he has used to spur economic growth in the country.
"If you understand how to lower taxes, you understand how to grow an economy," Giuliani said. "I've done it more effectively than anyone else running for President."
Positive economic growth, Giuliani said, comes from the private sector. Lowering taxes will allow the private sector to grow and produce jobs and income, which will help the United States stay competitive in the global economy.
Giuliani criticized some Democrats for not understanding this concept.
Overregulating business is the same as overtaxing them, Giuliani added. Overregulation puts a strain on businesses, which pushes them out of the country and reduces the number of jobs.
"We should regulate sensibly and competitively so we don't lose jobs," Giuliani said.
Giuliani also called for a reduction in government spending. Citing his experience reducing spending as mayor of New York City, Giuliani said the role of the government needs to be reexamined and spending should be modified to more effectively serve that role.
During his time as mayor, Giuliani said he was able to accomplish great things such as lowering the number of people living in poverty and on welfare, reducing the crime rate and turning a $2.3 billion budget deficit into a multibillion dollar surplus.
"I'm really good at doing impossible things," Giuliani said. "I like to be challenged by the impossible."
Giuliani also called for the United States to end its dependency on foreign oil by investing in new forms of energy such as ethanol, biodiesel, wind and solar, which it could then sell to other nations such as China and India.
During his address, Giuliani also spoke against a troop withdrawal in Iraq and said that publicizing it would give opposing forces an advantage.
"It makes no sense to print out when and how you're going to deplete your troops," Giuliani said.
He added that Iraq is part of a larger war on terrorism and the United States should come out of the country with a structure in place to diffuse terrorism. The focus should then be turned to Iran, Syria and Afghanistan.
Giuliani also criticized Democrats for seeking a defensive, rather than an offensive, approach to terrorism and for opposing the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance and interrogating terror suspects.
elect me and I will cut spending 5% per year across the board - no sacared cows. That would be a cut in real dollars, not in the rate of increase. If you get 100 this year, you’ll get 95 next year. no exceptions.
Sounds like a conservative - when mayor he did not manage NYC like this. What changed?
“I’m really good at doing impossible things,” Giuliani said. “I like to be challenged by the impossible.”
Imagine Fred saying something like this.
I need to have the maintenance done on my tinfoil hat.
But he is willing to fund abortions with tax payers money.
If he can figure out how to sell wind and sun to other nations, he's got my vote!
Liberal to Conservative, all I had to do is put my hat in the ring. Voila. /sarc
And not to forget he also added illegal immigrants to be elegible for benefits. All in spite of that pesky legal thingy he lost in the SCOTUS.
Giuliani is cross-dressing again. This time as a conservative.
Free condoms too! Giuliani is a phony. I wished someone would have asked which entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) he is planning on reducing. These vague answers on cutting spending are garbage.
When he was mayor of NYC, he wanted the state to reauthorize a commuter tax for nonresidents who worked in NYC.
He is not a fiscal conservative.
He is not a social conservative.
He is a 9/11 opportunist.
Giuliani is a liberal/progressive... Liberals just don't do that..
Anyone that believes that is stuck on stupid..
Any candidate who cannot SPECIFICALLY name which programs he would cut is spewing crap. This “across the board spending cut” talk is nonsense. So is talk of increasing efficiency (like Algore’s old efficiency task force, or whatever it was called).
What agencies will he cut or eliminate? What will he do with entitlement spending (something like 60% of the federal budget is considered nondiscretionary entitlement spending)?
If he proposed eliminating subsidies to ethanol producers, or tax subsidies provided to small general aviation airports, or subsidies to AMTRAK, or reducing earmarks, I’d be impressed.
But, like The Beast and most of the other candidates, he is vague and wants to make everybody happy.
For this ex-New Yorker, Rudy is a nonstarter.
Granted, I can't vote for someone who doesn't support gun rights or the right to life, but I'm not going to criticize him on the things written in this article.
He's a politician first. It's pandering. Then again, by NY NY standards, he is a conservative. But he isn't a Conservative.
I’m still imagining what republican presidential candidate wouldn’t say the same thing he said. Cut Taxes, reign in spending. OK. How.
Hopefully not by borrowing money. Romney cut taxes and generated a surplus in Mass, and did it without borrowing money.
"Don't be ridiculous. As president of Planet Spaceball, I can assure both you and your viewers, that there is absolutely no air shortage whatsoever."
Cut spending? Wow. You hardly ever hear pols saying that anymore. Even fewer actually do it.
During his time as mayor, Giuliani said he was able to accomplish great things such as inventing sliced white bread, post-it notes, thin crust pizza, the safety pin and making the sky blue, the grass green, and trees - especially the tress. "I'm really good at doing impossible things," Giuliani said. "I am a god."
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