[Resolute Conservative]

“While Mitt Romney was wrong in his assertion that 47 percent of the population was part of the dependent class...”

Now he wasn’t, he actually underestimated.

[gov_bean_ counter]

He is still a weasel.

[vpintheak]

I can go for that!

[Vince Ferrer]

Louisiana has been attracting a lot of business lately. They were an IT wilderness until recently, but are attracting businesses to locate there.

[Paladin2]

Jindal is good except for weird, lame attacks on other Republicans.

[Regulator]

Still haven’t gone far enough.

The assumption that a federal income tax is necessary is simply wrong, and a relic of the “Progressive Era”.

Abolish federal taxation altogether. Close the IRS.

The States can collect a federal support tax however they deem fit if income from tariffs and user fees are insufficient. When the federal government is the size that fits the needs of the States in terms of international and interstate dealings, then that’s all you need.

Don’t mend it. End it.

[mlizzy]

Our Lady of Prompt Succor, please help people wake up to the good which is Bobby Jindal. One wife, no broken families, governor of the top pro-life state in the nation for six years in a row... and the best answer I've heard yet in regard to the tragedy in Oregon, etc.

"Jindal said poor parenting and America's violent pop culture were to blame for the mass shooting last week, not the nation's gun laws, in a statement on Tuesday."

[livius]

Sounds good! And doable. I like Jindal.

[odawg]

“...he actually has been successful in curtailing state spending.”

Don’t have to read any further. He is leaving the state in financial shambles. When he came into office, the previous governor had left him one billion dollars in surplus. He leaves office with much more than that in deficit.

He should have fixed Louisiana’s financial condition before he tackled the nation’s. He would have more credibility.

[DoodleDawg]

This is a good thing, of course, assuming candidates have serious plans to restrain – and perhaps even cut – federal spending.

And therein lies the rub. All of the candidates have promised to raise defense spending. Trump is talking about raising infrastructure spending and spending on veterans. None of them have said just what they will cut and by how much.

Second, Jindal proposes to have all Americans pay some income tax. That’s the purpose of the 2-percent rate in his plan. His argument is quite explicit: “Every citizen needs to help row the boat, even if only a little.”

And to that 50 percent of American families who he is telling, "Vote for me! I'm going to raise your taxes!" just what kind of reception does he expect?

There's a reason why Jindal is at less than 1% in the polls.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

If Governor Jindal is this good as a governor, could he be added to a Republican cabinet to do much the same thing at the federal level? I'm thinking Secretary of the Treasury. "The Secretary of the Treasury is the principal economic advisor to the President and plays a critical role in policy-making by bringing an economic and government financial policy perspective to issues facing the government. "The Secretary is responsible for formulating and recommending domestic and international financial, economic, and tax policy, participating in the formulation of broad fiscal policies that have general significance for the economy, and managing the public debt. "The Secretary oversees the activities of the Department in carrying out its major law enforcement responsibilities; in serving as the financial agent for the United States Government; and in manufacturing coins and currency. "The Chief Financial Officer of the government, the Secretary serves as Chairman Pro Tempore of the President's Economic Policy Council, Chairman of the Boards and Managing Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, and as U.S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development." — U.S. Department of the Treasury Web site Granted, this is a *tremendous* amount of responsibility, and Governor Jindal would be perhaps the most important member of the administration to get our national financial house in order. A Herculean task. It would also mean that he would have to have a strong ally as chairman of the United States House Committee on Ways and Means, and the United States Senate Committee on Finance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ways_and_Means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Finance Perhaps one of the most important things he would have to do right from the start is to oversee an "audit of the FED", as right now it is effectively a wing of the Democrat party, and would strongly oppose any fiscal restraint of any kind. They have also been deeply involved in manipulating the stock indexes to the point where little confidence is left in them.

[1010RD]

By killing the tax on corporations you end the IRS war on TEA party non-profits. If they’re all nonprofits, then that whole part of the tax code can just go away.

[Sun]

Jindal was terrific on Mark Levin’s Friday show.