Posted on 09/25/2009 6:12:03 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
John Podesta compared the nation’s current budget crisis to the situation former President Bill Clinton faced in 1993 and said some form of a value-added tax is “more plausible today than it ever has been.”
“There’s going to have to be revenue in this budget,” said Podesta, Clinton’s former chief of staff and co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s transition team, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing today.
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The virtual Galt’s Gulch is going to trip them up BIGTIME.
He’s got a funny spin. I would say instead that a Republican majority is more plausible.
Hey Podesta!
Taxes KILL productivity!!!!!!
But then, destroying American industry and busines IS your objective......
I stand amazed. Thank God (I mean no Blasphemy in that) that Peter Shiff is running. He could change the whole debate.
Go for it. Another broken promise by the (conceited) ONE ... the one about no taxes on the middle class ... can only help us.
Do it before 2010, please.
With a sales tax of 10% in CA..any federal value added tax would hit like a bomb, even with their loyal Rat base.
They wont even pay for their healthcare they want so much.
Liberals are all and only about a free lunch.
Seriously...
Governments love VAT. Businesses collect it for them and of course the rate is so easy to change (always upwards).
In the UK it’s around 17% now, in France 19% (my figures may be out of date but if so they’re likely on the low side).
Podesta is a no good stinking marxist. He is left of Lenin. He is a mean-spirited, vile, hateful, gutter snipe. Everything he supports is all about tearing this great country down. He is venomous, destructive, and a douche bag. Other than that, he is an okay guy.
National Sales Tax to be added on top of huge state, county and or city sales taxes.
Thanks a bunch J. Podman. You brighten our lives so much...not. I can’t decide if I despise Clintanoids like Podesta,Lindsey, Berger, Reno, Holder, Albright, etc. more for being crooks or for bringing misery to all but their inner circle.
Now it looks like their wet dream just might come true! Another large permanent tax. Oh joy, Oh bliss.
This one I don't think they can sell.
John Podesta is the President and CEO of the *Center for American Progress. Under his leadership, the Center has become a notable leader in the development of and advocacy for progressive policy.
*a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C
Podesta worked as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice’s Honors Program in the Land and Natural Resources Division (1976–1977), and as a Special Assistant to the Director of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency, (1978–1979).
Podesta held a number of positions on Capitol Hill, including: Counselor to Democratic Leader Senator Thomas Daschle (1995–1996)
In addition, in 1988, Podesta founded with his brother Tony, Podesta Associates, Inc., a Washington, D.C. “government relations and public affairs” lobbying firm.
He had a key role in introducing *Executive Order 12958 and also oversaw Clinton’s pardons in the last days of his administration.
*an unprecedented effort to declassify millions of pages from the U.S. diplomatic and national security history
In 2008, Podesta authored his book The Power of Progress: How America’s Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country. In it, he articulates a vision of progressive values based on four core lessons: 1) Progressives stand with people, not privilege; 2) Progressives believe in the Common Good and a government that offers a hand up; 3) Progressives hold that all people are equal in the eyes of God and under the law; and 4) Progressives stand for universal human rights and cooperative global security.
In 2009, Podesta accompanied former President Clinton to North Korea for negotiations securing the release of two American journalists imprisoned on espionage charges. He can be seen in numerous widely circulated photographs of Clinton meeting with Kim Jong Il.
Sue all the democrats for the deficit, ask for treble damages.
PODESTA= GEORGE SOROS STOOGE
George Soros front group——>>>
The Center for American Progress is a liberal[1][2][3][4] public policy research and advocacy organization. Its website describes it as “... a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all.”[5]
Its President and Chief Executive Officer is John Podesta, who served as chief of staff to then U.S. President Bill Clinton. Located in Washington, D.C., the Center for American Progress has a campus outreach group, Campus Progress, and a sister advocacy organization, the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Citing the significant number of its staff and former staff that have been appointed to positions in the Obama Administration, Time magazine recently declared that there is “no group in Washington with more influence at this moment in history.”[6][7]
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