What is it about Tennessee that makes it so amenable to decent, sensible Democrats? I'm not just talking Ford -- Governor Phil Bredesen has shown more courage and political will in tackling growing government entitlement spending (particularly in health care) than any Republican out there.
Fred Thompson has propsed an opt-in flat tax of two rates: 10% up to 100K and 25% over 100K.
I met a former Hewlett Packard network analyst and administrator earlier today. He was working in a car parts store, where mostly Canadian, Mexican and Chinese items are sold. He said that the systems and software development jobs that he once saw Americans working at are now done in India for American company bosses. He’s no longer part of the middle class.
BARF!!! The entire Democrat party is sold off to the liberal socialist special interests, they have already proposed multiple tax hikes this year. Decent Democrat is an oxymoron, in all 50 states.
A joe lieberman and “moderate” Dems are there selling us short on immigration, taxes, ‘gay rights’, defeat in iraq and everything else.
“Governor Phil Bredesen has shown more courage and political will in tackling growing government entitlement spending”
oh please, when Romney does it, he’s bashed, when a Democrat does it, he’s praised. bass-ackwards.
What we need is real conservative leadership: The Tax Choice Act.
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2007/10/taxpayers-choice-act.html
There is someone from Tennessee in support of it. Maybe you should look him up.
And who does Junior claim is in the middle class? Did he lay out income numbers?
How about a 10% rate for EVERYBODY, regardless of annual income? People often make a million or several million in the space of several years—preceded and followed by years of little income. Why punish those people?
Everyone curses the AMT, but isn’t that simply a flat tax? What’s the difference?
Can anyone explain to me why capital gains taxes are taxed differently than income? Why should a blue collar guy have a higher rate than an investor?
everybody ought to have a stake in supporting the government and it’s spending. not just certain socia-economic groups.
a flat tax of whatever percent applied to everybody will fix a myriad of ills.
The flat tax ideas are good ideas, BTW. But special interest lobbyists will mess flat tax efforts up.
Harold Ford is absolutely right about the need for a middle class flat tax. It is one of those creative thoughts that makes too sense for the politicians to borrow. Like a lot of great ideas, we don’t hear any of the Presidential candidates talking about a middle class flat tax but it sounds like a winning issue to me.