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Paul Ryan: Taxes? Schmaxes!
I still have to make a plan to see my accountant this weekend to do my taxes. I’d use TurboTax, but found that when I make a mistake instead of being nominated to run the Treasury Department, I just get fined and penalized. So like most Republicans – real, like most Americans, tax reform is in my top three as far as actual issues go.
While I appreciate the Democrats wanting to raise taxes on people who make more money then me and not raise my taxes at all…just my fees…and raising the taxes at the places I shop making the items I buy more expensive…and making it harder for the small business I work for to get by…and by making in harder on the states so that my state and local taxes get raised…a tax plan that makes more sense might…well, make more sense.
Enter Paul Ryan and Roadmap 2.0. Instead of just saying “I’ma cut your taxes, son,” he goes into detail how and has numbers to back it up:
BOOK REVIEW: No Apology by Mitt Romney
I always hate political books that are more biographical than they are the person’s ideas. You know, 300 pages of what an awesome person they are, with one chapter dedicated to everything they would do the fix the country. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case with “No Apologies.” In it, Mitt Romney focused almost entirely on policy.
And when I say entirely on policy, what I mean to say is “Oy Vey, there’s so much policy.” I felt like I should have gone through the book with a highlighter for when I have to study for finals…which if your as big of a political dork as I am, you know I mean that in a good way. Anything personal aboot Romney’s life was told anecdotally, drawing on lessons learned that led him to believe what he believes, or really life experiences to back up why he believes this is the way to go. This was especially true when it came to the chapters of economic policy. He knows what works and what doesn’t because, through his career in the private sector, he knows what did and didn’t.
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Larry Kudlow, NY Turns it’s Lonely Eyes to You
With Harold Ford Jr. dropping his big for NY Senate, reducing the number of people running or thinking of running against Kristen Gillibrand to only twenty-seven, that still leaves us with our other US Senator and the only cat who is even rumoured to be running against him, Larry Kudlow.
Much like Rudy Giuliani running for Senate, Larry Kudlow would be a powerful candidate who would fire up the NY GOP and raise a lot of money in a short period of time. Unfortunately also like Rudy Giuliani, my fear is that Kudlow is going to break our heart in the end.
Which isn’t to say that’s a reason to drop the “Draft Kudlow” movement, as JBdotC Senior Kudlow and Company Correspondent Roger Stone explains…
Charlie Crist on ObamaCare: “What’s ObamaCare?”
I’m admittedly, even though I can’t vote in Florida, totally in the tank for Marco Rubio. And since it’s my blog, I don’t have to be fair and balanced if I don’t want to. But last week perfectly illustrated why I think Rubio is our future and Charlie Crist doesn’t believe in anything but winning.
The Crist campaign has recently started ratching up it’s criticism of Marco Rubio, most recently over leaked information from the Florida GOP (which is guy Jim Greer was the head of, until I believe he either resigned our was ousted) that Marco Rubio, as Speaker of the House, used GOP money on personal expenses…
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Country Muzik Tuesday: I Remember You
Ok, so Skid Row isn’t “country.” But, when sung by Carrie Underwood…
Mitch Daniels: Healthcare Reform Hoosier Stylee
So many articles lately on Mitch Daniels, so little time. This one is topical because it has to do with health care reform, or more specifically, health savings accounts. You know, one of the Republican alternatives the President lies aboot us not having.
I’ve always been the most interest in HSA (let Wikipedia explain more), just because it works the best for me personally. I do this weird thing where I take relatively decent care of myself, so outside of my annual physical my medical costs are generally low. Now, admittedly, I don’t fully understand how it would effect families or non-preventable illnesses like the cancer, but everything else I’ve read aboot it seems to make the most sense.
The Democrat Party claims this is all nonsense, and it only puts money in the hands of [place latest HCR bogeyman here]. However for the people of Indiana, where Mitch Daniels has put HSA’s into action, they seems to be happy with them as the current Governor (and possible 2012 candidate) explains…
For the Love of God, Leave Scott Brown Alone
It’s funny. One week, newly elected MA Senator Scott Brown got a heroes welcome at CPAC, as he introduced Mitt Romney. A week later, he’s getting jeered by many of those same conservatives for voting to allow a vote on a jobs bill. Such is the burden of being a squishy moderate. Speaking as someone who comes from one of them bluer than blue states – where most people aren’t as conservatives as they should be – everyone needs to calm the hell down.
Most of the national support for Brown was to be the 41st vote to block ObamaCare, which he is. But at the end of the day, he’s still a Senator from Massachusetts. He has constituents that he has to answer to more than he does the rest of us on the Internets, and while he’s probably going to vote with us a good 80% of the time, there will be times he strays from the collective. Heaven forbid Obama gets to appoint another Supreme Court Justice, don’t hold your breath on a filibuster.
There’s also a risk we run in demanding purity. Other than the fact that conservatives are supposed to believe in leaving things to the states, which you would assume would include who they elect to represent them (with some exceptions), we also risk losing seats in states like Massachusetts and here in New York…which is how we got into this mess in the first place. Senior JBdotC Red state, Blue state Correspondent Brett Josphe arranges the words better than I do:
Newt Gingrich: The Proteus of a Potomac?
For all of the whining some of my fellow eCon’s do when Newt Gingrich disagrees with them aboot anything, you saw none of that at CPAC as we walked through the crowd to “Eye of the Tiger” and chants of “NEWT!” All is usually forgiven once he starts speaking and aides throw chunks of raw meat out into the audience.
But the question is, will he ever run for President. In New York we have the “Hamlet on the Hudson” approach where many of our top candidates flirt with the idea of running but always let us down in the end. Gingrich’s has been doing a lot of the same, which is frustrating for those of us who feel that – regardless of the vault full of opposition research the DNC has on him – he’d still make a great President, and is both the best ideaman and public speaker we have.
But yet he keeps teasing us, first in 1996 then again in 2008. So why should we think 2012 will be any different? I’ll let the former Speaker tell you…
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