It is a very common practice with n00bs getting involved with bitter hate filled comments.
Why Ricks platform is better? He wants to cut taxes across the board, cut spending across the board, end Obamacare and eliminate all regulations the Regime put in place. That is all that there will be time for in the first term of a new President. There is no money and time to waste on space missions to the moon. The country is a shambles and it needs to be the number one focus, not legacy building projects/
Why do I think Rick is better than Newt to win? He is more electable. His polling is miles ahead of Newt. You are not old enough to remember, but Newt was radioactive when he left congress. Looking at his current unfavorables, he hasn't been able to repair the damage in his time out of office. Rick has the highest favorables, he is getting support from old Reagan democrats, he has a message tailor made for swing states by focusing on lost manufacturing jobs and he is winning against Romney on a consistent basis. He is running a far smarter and consistent campaign than Newt has this whole cycle.
Now go off and play beer pong, 52 pick up, hide the salami or whatever you kids do these days.
“It is a very common practice with n00bs getting involved with bitter hate filled comments.”
Of which you have become the master of. I’m only reacting to the blatant dishonesty and dishonorable behavior.
“Why Ricks platform is better? He wants to cut taxes across the board, cut spending across the board, end Obamacare and eliminate all regulations the Regime put in place.”
That doesn’t really explain how it’s “better”, unless you’re saying no one else shares that concept. Perhaps you don’t know what Santorum’s platform is. Or you’ve never had to discuss it before, and so you can’t give specifics.
Saint Rick plans to lower the tax rate for individuals to 10 percent and 28 percent. Of course, that’s just for the income tax, they still pay FICA. On corporate taxes, he plans to have it at 17 percent and 0 for manufacturers. He keeps the Capital Gains tax, though it’s lowered to 12 percent. I don’t recall him saying he’ll repeal “all regulations” Obama has put in place. He has said he will repeal the regulations that are “onerous”, whatever that means. Spending levels he hopes to reduce to will be back to 2008 levels. On Social security, there is a terrible emptiness of specifics and, from what is said, nothing really gets changed. Something about increasing retirement age, making sure social security funds go to social security, blah blah blah. There is a similar lack of specifics on many other topics, so I won’t even bother to bring them up.
Newt’s plan is a flat tax rate of 15 percent, or you can choose to remain in the progressive tax system currently in place. Corporate rate is a flat 12.5 percent for ALL businesses, not just for manufacturers. The Capital Gains tax is eliminated, amongst other things to be eliminated. Younger works will have the opportunity to embrace privatization of social security, which is a good important first step to utterly removing it.
None of this is perfect, mind you, but they are all good important first steps in the right direction. The real source of our problems is in the tax system itself, and in the very EXISTENCE of the entitlements.
Santorum just goofs around with the system as it is, but doesn’t make any major changes that can’t be undone later. He does throw a bone at us with the Balanced Budget Amendment, but I have never heard him once really use that to campaign on... which I think means it’s just something to put out there since everybody on the Pub side wants it. Except for Romney, anyway. He does not even attempt this style of reform in any of his other proposals.
Eliminating the tax code entirely and moving over into a purely equitable system of taxation should be the ultimate goal. We should not be playing winners and losers, or punishing success, no matter how big that success is OR that loss. To destroy the tax system would be to strike a major blow against the leftists, who use the current progressive system as a method of control.
Social security ought to ultimately be abolished. The Chilean Model, from which Newt’s (and Cain’s) social security plan derives is a good alternative. That system has been shown to be successful and even has been shown to give a better return on money invested therein.
I’m a Fair Tax guy myself, but Newt simply goes farther in his proposals.
This is why you never want to discuss it, and why you are so shallow in your explanation of Saint Rick’s “plans”. Oh, and this is but a TASTE.