Comments on: Conservatives will have to take many small steps to reclaim America

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:13:33 +0000

“If Romney wins, he will have a very tough clean-up job to do and it won’t be pretty.”

Do you think the Left will give Romney half as much time as they asked for Obama?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:12:12 +0000

Earl, one of the reasons the LEft knew they had to snipe off Sarah Palin is because she is someone who would have used the bully pulpit and got in the LEft’s face… about EVERYTHING they did. Similar to Andrew breitbart. Neutralizing those two, were higher priorities than anything they ever wanted to do against Bush or Republicans.

By: LSBeene

LSBeene — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:15:30 +0000

I agree Earl – it was meant as a complete replacement for the previous (current) tax code.

By: Earl

Earl — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:12:28 +0000

Danny: Part of GW’s problem was that he’s a “doer” and not a “teacher”. He REALLY needed to be out there using his bully pulpit to teach the citizenry WHY Dodd and Frank’s policies were so terrible, AT THE TIME they were proposed, right up to the vote and afterward. Ronaldus Magnus was better at this, but Bush should have found a spokesman if he couldn’t do it.

LSBeene: I’ll join you on chunks number 2 and 3 immediately. I will NOT vote for a national sales tax unless and until it is bundled with a repeal of the amendment allowing the income tax. If we don’t do this, we’ll end up with both – count on it. Do NOT settle for an attempt — the sales tax does not become legal until the amendment repeal is passed by the required number of states.

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By: LSBeene

LSBeene — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:15:14 +0000

Actually changing Washington would be simple if done in a few big chunks:

1) Simplify the tax code to a one line sales tax. One of the ways Congress wields power, and gets others to come to them and kiss their rings (or butts) is by having everyone and their lobbyist coming in, hat in hand, to urge “fairness” in the tax code. Now we have a 70,000 page tax code. With this simple fix (excempting ONLY food), no one would need to go and kiss the butts of Congress Critters and “total coincidence” pay into their re-election campaign.

2) Start Chopping whole departments – starting with the Dept of Ed. Three Words: Total Mission Failure.

3) Remove any and all rules and laws that make Congress exempt to any and all laws we citizens have to face – they are not nobility.

Right now the incentive for utopian dreamers to want to enter gov’t and start pulling levers is enticing becauase gov’t has so much power – we need to reduce that incentive.

Steven

By: Duchess of Austin

Duchess of Austin — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:15:43 +0000

This is just anecdotal, but my friend has a 30something son who has just awakened to the fact that Obamacare is going to take a huge chunk out of his check. A chunk he can’t afford. *smile*

If we are lucky, there are millions of 30somethings out there coming to the same conclusion. There is still hope.

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:24:58 +0000

The left has been very successful in its use of “incrementalism” — eating the whole salami one slice at a time.
We’ve had a century of small changes — an issue comes up, and the “compromise” always manages to move us a little bit toward government control. This is particularly true when some issue which has not been under government control are brought up for consideration, and 1% of the way toward government control is the “compromise”. For example, we might “compromise” on banning sodas larger than 16 ounces. It’s a “compromise” compared with banning all sodas completely.
Conservatives need to adopt the same technique.
Sure, cutting taxes once is good, even if we have to have the cuts expire in ten years. But the job isn’t done! Extend the sunset provision by a year or two, as a “compromise” with a five or ten year extension. Cut taxes one or two percent, as a “compromise” with a five or ten percent cut. Instead of eliminating all barriers to buying health insurance across state lines, allow some sort of compromise solution — maybe companies in one state can sell policies from out-of-state insurers “on consignment”.
Make the fans of government control “compromise” on how much of their position they give up at any given increment.

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By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:18:23 +0000

My fear is that the Obama administration and Democrat Congress have buried so many fiscal and economic landmines during their tenure that are set to explode during the next Administration. Obamacare tax increases are one, another is Taxmaggedon.

The Democrat Left is very good at collecting accolades for expressing the good intentions of their proposals (“free” healthcare for all) and leaving it to the Republicans to collect the boos of the masses for having to clean up the messes (tax increases to pay for it). A good example is GW Bush getting the blame for the 2008 financial crash that was brought on by Democrat policies that he opposed while Dodd and Frank skate free.

If Romney wins, he will have a very tough clean-up job to do and it won’t be pretty.