Posted on 10/16/2011 5:07:27 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
October 16th, 2011
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, R-Calif.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain; Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.; former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): 2012 Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.; Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.
The Romneys, Newts,McCains and Perrys are outsiders we let in.
We need all Republicans to win next year. Our job is go choose a conservative standard bearer while not alienating those who we will need to help us in 2012.
If you have fallen into that “no difference between the parties” then you are falling into the media trap.
There IS a diffeence between the parties. While individual people in the GOP may lean liberal on immigration, or spending, or whatever, as A WHOLE the GOP is pro-American, pro-gun rights, pro-lower taxes, and against more spending.
Almost ALL of the head democrats are anti-military, big-spending, pro-union, anti-business (except for their big corporate donors).
Would I wish that the GOP was more conservative as a whole? Sure. But we injected a lot of conservatives into the Congress last year. And a lot of the liberal ones are retiring or are being primaried (like Richard Lugar, my senator).
This is a LONG WAR. The left does not give up and they have been at this for 50 years. We simply MUST see the big picture, get the most conservative person we can get elected, and then move forward.
Saying there are not two parties is a recipe for defeat. I just will not agree with that, although I understand your discouragement from time to time.
You missing the point. Rodguy was talking about what 9-9-9 does after it passes, not how it would be demagogue in the campaign
Good point.
By eliminating payroll taxes, it lowers the lower income payers tax rates.
When Sarah Palin enters the race on behalf of candidate after candidate and gets in her bus and charges up crowd after crowd all over the country it won't be because the rinos have any say whatsoever. It will be conservative politics in play all the way!! And she will win the day for us one more time.
Exactly Son thanks.
Watching now. Cain was good.
Why the heck though do they keep bringing on that dingbat Kattey Kay? Might as well just have Maddow on to employee an American.
You are just so right about these hidden taxes.
If Cain wants to sell this plan he needs to expose all these taxes to the light of day.
Have you ever looked at your cable bill? Your cell phone bill? In our case, our propane gas bill? Not to mention taxes on cigarettes, gas, alcohol.
The politicos know how to sneak in taxes that escape the public eye.
Also, Laffer did heartily endorse Cain’s plan and that fact makes me sit up and pay closer attention. Laffer was not kidding around.
I think Cain is on to something but I’m concerned.
What does winning an elective office have to do with having experience in running it? No President ever had prior experience at being president (maybe vice-president)
Your statement implies that any dogcatcher would be superior to Cain in the oval office, simply because they won their elections.
We are already suffering from one Oval Office resident who had little experience. As nice as it sounds to have a non-politician in the Pollyanna world, politics and politicial machinery runs Washington in the real world.
I think that rings a lot hollow when you compare the five word Obama resume to that of the non-affirmative action/overachiever Herman Cain.
Thanks John. Its just MHO but when any tax plan treats everyone the same how can people complain? The problem with our tax structure today is that everyone is in a different world. Some are treated fairly others are not. why not treat eveyone the same.
The person who buys a new car will pay a lot more in federal taxes than the person who buys a used car (9% vs 0) but people just focus right now on daily expenditures, not the big ticket items where the rich spend money. Jet fuel, anyone?
Besides the hordes of Americans who don’t pay any federal taxes now, DC lobbyists and tax lawyers are going to be very vocally anti-Cain.
Ever read the Codevilla piece?
How did he treat his dog? This sort of thing is important.
Not so much, no. Take a typical family of 4 earning the median income of $49,500. Individual deductions are $3650 for each person, standard deduction is $11,400 for a total of $26,000 in deductions and a taxable income of $23,500. That gives them an income tax of $2687.50. The current child tax credit brings that down to less than $700 in taxes. The Make Work Pay credit brings them to zero. So all our family pays is the Social Security and Medicaid taxes of 5.65%, for a total tax bill of about $2796. Now look at Cain's plan. No deductions, except for charity, so for a couple that doesn't donate then the tax bill goes up to $4455. Add to that a 9% on everything that they buy and the tax could well be another $4000 or so on top of that. That's $8000 or so in taxes under Cain vs. $2700 under the current system. That looks like a tax increase to me.
I think Cain did a great job. Definitely one of his charms is his gift of gab.
Who’s the lying bastard on Face the Nation throwing the AZ office of the ATF under the bus, defending Holder?
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