Posted on 12/05/2011 6:21:33 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Tax cutter. Those lifetime lessons have made a big impact. Huntsman, like Thatcher, seems to be a conservative of intuition derived from personal experience. Huntsman a conservative? As governor, he massively cut income and sales taxes — instituting a 5 percent flat income tax — while expanding the state’s “rainy day” reserve fund. His approach to healthcare reform relied on markets rather than mandates. As the Club for Growth describes it, “Utah’s main health reform contained no individual mandate, no employer mandate, and has very limited regulatory authority. … It empowers individuals to take ownership of their own health insurance and to choose coverage that works for them.”
If elected president, Huntsman says he would like to slash tax rates to their lowest levels since before America entered World War One and eliminate taxes on capital gains and dividends. Powerful supply-side medicine for an anemic economic recovery. Huntsman has embraced Rep. Paul Ryan’s transformational, market-oriented, debt- reduction plan, calling it “the model I would work from.” He’s also pro-life, a dedicated free trader and – at least as evidenced by his sweeping bank reform plan — an ardent anti-crony capitalist.
Of course, conservatives would sure like more details about Huntsman’s views on dealing with climate change. And just how would he match defense cuts that might reduce spending to Clinton-era levels with superpower America’s global commitments and power-projection capabilities? A lot more clarity is needed there. And the Club charges Huntsman with being disinterested in cutting spending when governor.
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No thanks.
Good luck with that.
No thanks.
Jon Huntsman’s Love Letters (to Obama & the Clintons)
Huntsman: Climate Change Has Established Scientists Associated With It
Jon Huntsman's Cap and Trade, Stimulus Support and Individual Mandate Past Catches Up to Him
Huntsman in 2009: Stimulus "Probably Wasn't Big Enough"
Ok, he’s the most misunderstood politician in the 21st century. Who’s fault is that? If he can’t explain himself adequately to his supposed allies how he he going to explain himself to the country at large?
Two words:
1) Milk
2) Toast
Sorry, I will not support anyone who wrote a love letter to BHO.
Amnesty, global warming nutcase
Huntsman has one way to break out and win:
Renounce “free trade” and link up with Donald Trump.
He won’t, because he seems to work for Beijing and the “free trade” gang.
Though I don’t support Huntsman (my final decision after spending this season undecided is that I have no one to vote for, only people to vote against), I am perplexed by the level of disdain for him around here. He is no more or less conservative than the current “conservative” superstar newt Gingrich.
Nope. He worked for Obama. Nope. Nope. Nope.
This pig in lipstick is still a pig.
He can’t open his mouth without flinging an insult our way.
Yeah, well, I for one, am not supporting Gingrich either. Until Gingrich can explain why and how is a rock solid conservative given his history, I’m not voting for him either.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Huntsman could conceivably get some traction, but he’s a dweeb.
Michael Dukakis without the helmet.
He needs to be combative. In Obama’s face.
And a bit more assertive about trade. He was Ambassador to the world’s biggest trade cheat.
So where is he on the trade issue? ABSENT. He needs to get with the program, and be PRO-AMERICAN.
They he’ll get support. He doesn’t stand for anything.
“They” = then
Huntsman would destroy obama. Obama picked him for china ambassadorship to get him out of the way for 2012.
Riiiiight.
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