Posted on 02/19/2008 6:15:31 PM PST by Perdogg
Senator John McCain essentially took the no-new-taxes pledge on the Stephanopoulos show Sunday morning. He also emphasized his corporate-tax-cut plan, which would drop the rate from 35 to 25 percent, and reiterated his pledge to keep the Bush tax rates in place.
Incidentally, an interesting story in USA Today by Dan Nowicki of the Arizona Republic says that Sen. McCain has often talked about getting top U.S. business leaders into his administration. Several times on the campaign trail, McCain has mentioned Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, Cisco’s John Chambers, and FedEx CEO Fred Smith as possible cabinet members.
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McCain would likely be even more pro-business than GWB. That is usually a very good thing, but not always (such as when it comes to policy on illegal immigration).
mccain is a total free trader (no welfare, subsidies or trade barriers) but he has this teddy roosevelt side that must be dealt with.
After voting against Bush's tax cuts. Thanks alot you back stabbing SOB.
Do you really believe that? McCain is the same guy who opposed the Bush tax cuts because they favored "the rich." Now....he lies and claims it was because of the deficit. Did you also believe Bush I when he said "no new taxes?"
No new taxes pledge eh? Didn’t another big-government Republican say something like that once? Fool me twice, fool me again.
mccain is a total free trader (no welfare, subsidies or trade barriers) but he has this teddy roosevelt side that must be dealt with.
you don’t know mccain. He has a 100% trade record from cato. He told iowans that not only is he against ethanol subsidies but he thinks ethanol from sugar cane would be better for alternative energy.
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/John_McCain_Free_Trade.htm
“I have a glass of ethanol every morning before breakfast. But I still don’t support the subsidies, and I don’t think we need them. And I think we ought to have sugarcane-based ethanol into this country, and I don’t think that subsidies are the answer, because I’ll open up every foreign market to our agricultural products, who are the most productive & best & most effective agriculture in the world. All this bashing of free trade—Ronald Reagan must be spinning in his grave.”
Arnold Matters; Schwarzenegger's policy compass is clear — and conservative.
NRO ^ | 10/10/03 | Larry Kudlow
Posted on 10/10/2003 11:06:41 AM PDT by PikamaxAre conservatives underestimating the significance of Arnold Schwarzenegger's election to the California governorship? I think they are.
... Ever since he announced his candidacy on Jay Leno's late-night TV show, Schwarzenegger has been consistent that low-tax conservative fiscal policies are the key to solving the California economic problem. Such policies would stem the outflow of smart money, smart people, and small businesses. Schwarzenegger's pro-business stance is a startling change — not only for the Golden State, but for the nation.
...Schwarzenegger will be a formidable national campaigner on next year's reelection trail, one who can stiffen President Bush' s backbone in promoting new pro-growth tax- and Social Security-reform measures. In editorials and stump speeches, Schwarzenegger has adopted Ronald Reagan's optimism. He frequently cites the "shining city on the hill" phrase that framed much of the Gipper's positive message. "Can California regain it's glory days?" Schwarzenegger asks. "I am confident that it will."
I'm also confident that Arnold Schwarzenegger will rejuvenate conservative politics and its influence on the nation.
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