Scott "Zoolander" Brown's tax cut proposal
By Anonymous on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 11:13am
Behold, the Immediate Tax Relief for American Workers Amendment sponsored by the Junior Senator from Massachusetts, Senator Scott Brown:
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Some politicians play both sides of the aisle. Here, Senator Scott Brown bemoans the national debt: "In Washington, government is driving up our debt" in a floor speech he made to propose new legislation, a payroll tax cut. Tax cuts reduce government revenue, the same revenue used to pay down the debt. Can Scott you have it both ways, complain about the national debt and propose a tax cut without being held accountable for the obvious?
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I think the key to the
I think the key to the proposal is that it is based on using money which has already been 'spent' in the authorization of the stimulus bill. Cutting payroll taxes with the stimulus cash is probably a better use than half the pork it's currently meandering off to.
"Tax cuts reduce government revenue, the same revenue used to pay down the debt."
Please, the revenue is NEVER USED TO PAY DOWN THE DEBT! If the government actually paid off its debts before spending money on new things, we wouldn't be in the massive hole we are now.
"revenue is NEVER USED TO PAY DOWN THE DEBT! "
... except when there's a budget surplus as there was under Clinton. Notice the "fiscal conservatives" who ran huge deficits (borrowed a ton of money) to run government.
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The Clinton budget surplus
The Clinton budget surplus came with the dot.com bubble, not really due to any action by the Executive or Legislative branches.
not really?? got any evidence to back that up?
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Doesn't the current stimulus
Doesn't the current stimulus package contain "tax cuts for 95% of working American's" to the tune of about $247 billion?
hey big spenders
Honesty
You can't cry about deficits and then ask for a tax cut. It is dishonest. We'll have a surplus again when Democrats make cuts and republicans raise taxes. It takes BOTH to fix a deficit.
True, But the problem of tax
True,
But the problem of tax cuts in a recession are they ussually go towards paying down personal debt, or are put into savings. Two things that have very little effect on GDP, and thus turning around the market and consumer confidence.
Still, atleast he's looking for temporary tax cuts that would be neutral.
I'd much rather see him offering some hard proposals to cut programs, both social and defense. The ones that don't work, and do little good. Tax cuts sound all nice and Rosey, but the reality is they do little, especially seeing how taxes are at historical lows. Starving the beast doesn't work. Making some tough funding choices does.
Starving the beast - ask Grover Norquist not that he'd admit it
If Scott Brown is Zoolander..
does that make Mitt Romney Mugatu?
I'd say "yes" ... after a trip to his stylist
Name-calling in a subject
Name-calling in a subject heading really makes me want to engage in discussion.
Come on, now..
you have to admit Brown is really, really good looking.
Zoolander
why zoolander? it's family lore
from the same NYT article:
Do you think Gail Huff has ever said..
"Scott, why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire ...?"
His brain has not only been washed
as they say, it's been dry-cleaned.
He'll get better
He'll get better at floor speeches right? Please?
brilliant?
If Brown's position is that
we should not add to the deficit and
spending is not the answer
then why is he proposing a spending plan
that is not accounted for in the budget and
increases the deficit?
unintended consequences
Brown's election may ending up being a positive for health-care reform
Washington Post - Shailagh Murray - ?Mar 6, 2010?
Remember how Republican Scott P. Brown's victory in January's Senate race in Massachusetts was supposed to represent a mortal blow to health-care reform?