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Bachmann wants tax holiday
The Daily Globe, Worthington, Minn ^ | 2008-12-12 | Don Davis

Posted on 12/14/2008 4:19:06 PM PST by rabscuttle385

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1 posted on 12/14/2008 4:19:07 PM PST by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

you’re about 2 weeks late...


2 posted on 12/14/2008 4:20:31 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: rabscuttle385

Representative Bachman - Oh, how I wish that this would come to pass...


3 posted on 12/14/2008 4:21:13 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: xcamel

Um. The article was published on December 12, two days ago?


4 posted on 12/14/2008 4:22:13 PM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Army Air Corps

I like her. Isn’t she the lady who mentioned Islam, the lib MSM went nuts and the RNC/GOP cut off her money and she won anyway?

I know Mitt Romney helped her at the last minute and I think conservative radio hosts helped her.


5 posted on 12/14/2008 4:24:05 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: Frantzie

Exactly right.


6 posted on 12/14/2008 4:24:42 PM PST by alecqss
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To: rabscuttle385

FYI:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=tax%20holiday

(many out there ahead of Bachmann)


7 posted on 12/14/2008 4:25:46 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: xcamel

Nuts. *shrugs* Oh well. :P


8 posted on 12/14/2008 4:27:06 PM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385

Highly impractical and less economically effective than a smaller permanent reduction in tax rates.


9 posted on 12/14/2008 4:27:32 PM PST by Arguendo
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To: rabscuttle385

However.. the more that support it the better....


10 posted on 12/14/2008 4:29:27 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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A tax holiday is a start. Ultimately, Big Government will have to reduce its monetary “footprint” in the U.S. economy lest it strangle the private sector to death.


11 posted on 12/14/2008 4:31:08 PM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Arguendo

not only that but we’ll end up with higher taxes once this holiday is over.


12 posted on 12/14/2008 4:32:27 PM PST by ari-freedom (Conservatives solve problems. Libertarians ignore problems. Liberals create problems.)
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To: rabscuttle385

They should all begin by saying we get back to what the founders wanted. No income tax. Let the Feds live on excise taxes. No giving money to schools, private groups, private individuals or businesses. No more intrusive income tax forms. It is time the Feds got back to basics. Funding the military and the courts.


13 posted on 12/14/2008 4:33:14 PM PST by Betty Jane
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To: rabscuttle385

A sales tax holiday, reimbursed by the federal government to the states, would go a long way toward boosting the economy.

An income tax holiday is much trickier to implement, especially since taxable wages are calculated on annual basis.


14 posted on 12/14/2008 4:33:40 PM PST by nj26 (Border Security=Homeland Security. Put Our Military on the Border! (Proud2BNRA))
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To: rabscuttle385

Best way to help the economy:

http://zaptheirs.ning.com/

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer


15 posted on 12/14/2008 4:34:59 PM PST by USAF70 (I'm a bitter clinger)
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To: ari-freedom

Agreed—it would result in a massive increase in the deficit, which we’ll be paying back for year. I like Rep. Bachmann, but I think the Republicans are better off focusing on serious policy proposals than things like this that are really just political posturing.


16 posted on 12/14/2008 4:38:09 PM PST by Arguendo
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I've got a novel concept. Instead of a tax holiday, stop :

bailouts
deficit spending
socializing losses
standing in the way of energy independence
outsourcing jobs to slave labor markets.
17 posted on 12/14/2008 4:38:20 PM PST by mysterio
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I think a serious tax protest will develope as the economy sinks. I haven’t met a single person who didn’t think bailing out the banks was anything other than a theft. The country is in deep trouble and the government wants the American people to stuggle more by giving the fat cats all of their money. The majority in Washington need to be run out of town.


18 posted on 12/14/2008 4:45:59 PM PST by mefistofelerevised
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To: rabscuttle385

Bachmann is an unabashed conservative and did not back away from her principles during her re-election campaign. While the idea of a tax holiday may not be practical in comparison to other, better and more lasting alternatives, she is willing to put her beliefs out in the public arena and I respect her greatly for that.


19 posted on 12/14/2008 4:48:17 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: rabscuttle385

A thread having to do with Michelle Bachmann is... worthless without pics.


20 posted on 12/14/2008 5:02:47 PM PST by Mogwai (I'll stop procrastinating tomorrow.)
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