Republicans Struggle To Say How They Would Pay For Tax Cuts

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Swede  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list       Sun Oct-17-10 01:38 PM
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Republicans Struggle To Say How They Would Pay For Tax Cuts
   
The video is lower down on the page linked.

On Sunday's morning public affairs shows, both Republican Senate candidates Carly Fiorina in California and Ken Buck in Colorado struggled to give specifics about how they would reduce the deficit while also supporting expensive extensions of the Bush tax cuts. Although journalists ask Republicans this question almost without fail in debates and interviews, candidates and lawmakers still consistently stumble over it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/17/republicans-st...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9336346

The answer is easy stop spending like crazy. It's not rocket science. If the govt is broke don't start up a bunch of new hand out programs.

The real worry we have is not a single democrat can explain how to create jobs.
We always get some bullshit answer that more govt intervention will produce jobs.
Short of mandating that companies hire what can the govt do?

rgbecker  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list       Sun Oct-17-10 01:47 PM
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1. That's because the Republicans have nothing....    Updated at 1:47 PM
   
except hollow phrases like:"I'm for "Limited" government". "Stop the spending." "Cut Taxes."
"Cut regulation." I'm gonna throw up.

And 'hope and Change" aren't hollow phrases?
Come on if the dems really have done so much to make things better then why aren't they running on their accomplishments? And I aint buying that crap that it's too hard to explain. Hell if my boss said "I will give you a raise if you can tell me what you have accomplished". I would probably get a pay cut if I said I can't explain all my accomplishments but, they are stellar.

[true_blood]

And 'hope and Change" aren't hollow phrases?
Come on if the dems really have done so much to make things better then why aren't they running on their accomplishments? And I aint buying that crap that it's too hard to explain. Hell if my boss said "I will give you a raise if you can tell me what you have accomplished". I would probably get a pay cut if I said I can't explain all my accomplishments but, they are stellar.

Yes, they are! Hope and change. Not the hope we were "hoping" for and not the "change" we were rooting for as well. The EXTREME opposite, as a matter of fact.

[diesel driver]

In the first place, you don't have to "pay" for tax cuts, they "pay" for themselves. 

Show me at any time when taxes were cut that the FEDGOV actually received LESS money.  Never happened, never will. 

The reason deficits went up is because spending outpaced revenue, not because of lower revenue due to a tax cut.

[formerlurker]

Here you go misfits:

http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/GovernmentReform.htm

[true_blood]

There you guys going with your facts again, proving that Liberalism IS truly, a mental disorder!