Scott Walker & Rubio Rebuke Jeb Bush – Won’t Support Tax Hikes to Bring Down Deficit
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, June 18, 2012, 6:28 AM
Former Governor Jeb Bush told the House Budget Committee earlier this month that he would support tax increases to cut the US national deficit.
Because government is so responsible with spending taxpayer dollars.
Thankfully, not all Republicans feel that way.
Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) spoke out against tax increases as part of a defecit deal.
Americans for Tax Reform reported:
RUBIO:
On Wednesday, BloombergBusinessweek reported:
Florida Senator Marco Rubio said he wouldn’t accept revenue increases as part of a deficit deal that also cut spending to prevent a U.S. fiscal crisis, saying it’s a “different time” than when former President George H.W. Bush embraced such an agreement in 1990.
The first-term Republican, a prospect to be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate, said he favors a broad agreement to simplify and bring more certainty to the tax code, and argued that it ultimately would bring additional revenue to the government. He ruled out including revenue increases in the plan, saying that would frustrate economic growth.
WALKER:
On Thursday, following Gov. Scott Walker’s appearance at the Monitor Breakfast, Huffington Post reported:
Walker also rejected Bush’s statement that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney should accept a plan exchanging $10 in spending cuts for $1 in revenue.
“I just don’t believe that the problem in government is that we don’t tax enough. I think it’s not only that we don’t control our spending enough, we don’t use our resources appropriately,” he told reporters. “I think there’s also not enough out there to help the private sector stimulate growth. I think that’s one of the big things that’s missing in the equation.”
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ME Grealey commented:
Jeb looks pretty well fed. The perfect caricature of the career politician demanding more from those who truly produce.
Finncrisp commented:
At this point, we have had no budget for three plus years. Spending out of control. Until we have a budget based on maybe 2005 level of spending, then we can start to decide how to cut the pie. We need to cut a pie of finite size, not infinite size like it is now. The days of supersizing the budget are over.
Patty commented:
Taxing more, especially the middle class would literally end the middle class. Middle Class is the backbone of America. This is what Romney is saying. He is reaching out to them and in possibly and hopefully in a way will turn things around.
Taxing more would further strain our productivity and it would further bring this nation is a decline economically.
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Obama 1/1/13 Tax Increase on Families earning $50,000 is $1750! A Killer to Economy
http://capoliticalnews.com/2012/04/15/obama-1113-tax-increase-on-families-earning-50000-is-1750-a-killer-to-economy/
Now, you tell me what this will do to families who are struggling to keep their home, feed their family and then Jeb Bush, elitist wants the people of America to be taxed more.
They will lose their homes, many underwater, property taxes are sky high. Gas to get to work, food prices are climbing. This would devastate an already poor economy.
RG commented:
Anybody who says “revenue enhancement” should be disregarded, it’s an immediate tip-off that they’re a fraud.
Tim in Cali commented:
Do we have an income problem…..Nooooooo
Do we have a spending problem …Yessssss
Kinda simple: A single mom of 2 (Betty) makes $38K /yr working at a retail store
Cutting corners,she manages to save $3-5K/yr for a **rainy day**
I want Betty to run the Treasury
**rainy day**….Psst, Govt….that’s money people save to lessen the blow from bad economic times,that are sure to come.
Captain Kirk commented:
Canada actually did that when they were in trouble back in 1990s if I recall. The difference is that they CUT back on spending while increasing tax to pay off debt. The key is SPENDING and US gov’t is spending way too much.
Larkin commented:
I will never vote for another Bush, Clinton or Obama.
Too bad there are no Reagans waiting in the wings.
gerr commented:
Who knew that Fox cartoon “Lil’ Bush” pegged jeb so well?
bg commented:
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can’t put my finger on it so to speak..
but for some reason Rubio comes across as being to
Republicans what Obama was to the Democrats..
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Tommy commented:
Jeb Bush dun went fool retard.
bg commented:
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Larkin #7 June 18, 2012 at 11:22 am
believe it or not, Reagan was more liberal than GWB..
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owl commented:
#7 Amazing you said that. W is the only one I would want to vote for again.
I have never supported Jed for president. Dad Bush gets a bad rap. I will take a Clinton over an Obama any day of the week but will work hard against any Clinton and never vote for one.
I LOVED Reagan and gave him support long before he won his nomination. He was not God. He was a wonderful president that gave us ILLEGALS. Did he mean to? Not really. If he could have a do-over, I suspect there are a few things he would. I only started pointing out some of his mistakes when people start with the comparisons.
Which mistake was worst? Which end result was worse between all these people?
I do not take kindly to the Bushbashing if it comes from MSM/Dems or those very conservative saints that walk on water.
owl commented:
#11 Yikes bg. You beat me.
jony101 commented:
Jeb looks like he hasn’t missed any meals lately. All that food at the trough is making his brain a little slower than it usually is. He is beginning to look like big al gore.
What part of “no new taxes” don’t these wannabe “republicans” understand. We are tired of big government and there big fat paychecks and pensions.
Nanna commented:
I have never liked Jeb Bush. Anytime someone talked of him running for VP with romney, I would feel like shaking som sense into them.
As for Reagan giving us illegals, he signed the amnesty bill with the promise from Democrats that the border would be shut. It never came to pass. As usual, they showed the Democrats can’t be trusted.They always make deals only to break them.
Nanna commented:
**some sense
bg commented:
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Crony Capitalism: definition
January 20, 2012
Crony Capitalism: vid/trans
Crony Capitalism: excerpts (#68)
[The largest banks are actually bigger than they were when he took
office. And earned more in the first two-and-a-half years of his term
than they did during the entire eight years of the Bush administration.]
scroll down for more excerpts..
The Enrich US Party.. /s/ (#54)
[Democrats beat the market by 73 basis points per month, compared
to 18 for Republicans. That’s a rout anyway you look at it. Senators
fare even better than house members.]
‘ a tyranny of the elite’ (#32)
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bg commented:
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i don’t heart Jeb, but i don’t hate him either..
Bush v. Schiavo
Gov. Bush seeks to dismiss suit challenging ‘Terri’s Law’
Editorial: Jeb the centrist? Not when he ran Florida
[Jeb Bush is not a moderate. As Florida’s governor, he cut taxes on the rich. He pioneered vouchers for religious schools and a clever way to support them with state money. He consolidated control over judicial appointments to crack down on “activist” judges. He claimed to be for limited government, but misused state power by intervening in the Terri Schiavo case.
He didn’t need to work with the few Democrats
in the state Legislature and rarely did.
If Mr. Bush sounds moderate now, it’s because, as he notes himself, the Republican Party has skidded so to the right that’s scraping the guardrail. Mr. Bush made headlines this month. First, he said tax increases must be part of any effective deficit-reduction package. Then he said his father and Ronald Reagan would not have fit comfortably into today’s rigid GOP.]
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