[Vision2020] Latah County Election Summ ary and Candidate Comparison

[Saundra Lund]

R,

 

Did you happen to catch 60 Minutes last night?  Republican David Stockman,
President Regan's budget director & the behind the scenes man responsible
for the largest tax cuts in US history, was on, and I found what he had to
say quite interesting:

 

One Republican brave enough to go public is David Stockman, President
Reagan's budget director. He says all the Bush tax cuts should be eliminated
- even those on the middle class. 

And he says his own Republican Party has gone too far with its anti-tax
religion. 

"Tax cutting is a religion. What do you mean by that?" correspondent Lesley
Stahl asked Stockman. 

"Well it's become in a sense an absolute. Something that can't be
questioned, something that's gospel, something that's sort of embedded into
the catechism and so scratch the average Republican today and he'll say 'Tax
cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts,'" he explained. 

"It's rank demagoguery," he added. "We should call it for what it is. If
these people were all put into a room on penalty of death to come up with
how much they could cut, they couldn't come up with $50 billion, when the
problem is $1.3 trillion. So, to stand before the public and rub raw this
anti-tax sentiment, the Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say
this, should be ashamed of themselves." 

These frank words come from Ronald Reagan's old budget director. Stockman
was the architect of the largest tax cut in American history. 

But he doesn't let the Democrats off the hook. He says he cringes when he
hears President Obama say things like this: "I believe we ought to make the
tax cuts for the middle class permanent." 

"We have now got both parties essentially telling a big lie," he told Stahl.
"With a capital 'B' and a capital 'L' to the public: and that is that we can
have all this government, 24 percent of GDP, this huge entitlement program,
all of the bailouts. And yet, we don't have to tax ourselves and pay our
bills. That is delusional."

 

If you're interested, you can read or watch more here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/28/60minutes/main6999906.shtml?tag=co
ntentMain;cbsCarousel

 

OR (if the link breaks in transmission)

 

http://tinyurl.com/2f6fp33

 

Given the incredible debt that's been amassed due to the war-mongering of
the industrial-military complex, I remain quite interested what solutions
anti-tax advocates recommend that don't throw their fellow Americans under
the bus.

 

"The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of
life - the children; those who are in the twilight of life - the aged; and
those who are in the shadows of life - the sick, the needy, and the
handicapped."

                ~ Hubert Horatio Humphrey

 

 

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Rob Waters
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 6:23 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Latah County Election Summ ary and Candidate
Comparison

 

Roger,

 

Thanks for posting the link to the comparison. Don't follow the local
candidates that closely, but found the fact that every Dem went on the
record for tax increases quite interesting.

 

R

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