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Tony Blankley
It's Still The Economy, Stupid
Tony Blankley 9/3/2008
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The No. 1 issue (in contrast to personality) in the presidential campaign, according to every poll of voter opinion, is the economy. More than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than the concerns about health care, the public's negative view of the economy is unambiguously driving the historically unprecedented 80 percent of the public who believe the country is on the wrong track.

As a result, Sen. Barack Obama is in a powerful position. He merely needs to state that the current economy is unacceptable and that we must change the policies that have caused it. In national politics, the side that can make its point with a slogan usually beats the side that needs two paragraphs to rationally refute (or at least plausibly rebut) the slogan.

That is why, for instance, President Clinton capitulated to Newt Gingrich's Republican Congress in 1996 and signed the Republican welfare reform bill (after vetoing it twice in 1995). As slick-talking as Clinton was (and is), he simply could not communicate effectively against the slogan of welfare reform having a work requirement.

In the remainder of this campaign, the Republicans have to avoid two traps. The first trap is to defend the current economy. Even though as of now, the economy is not in recession but in fact is growing slightly, it would be electorally
lethal for Republicans to deny what at least two-thirds of the country feels: The economy stinks, and they want it fixed.

The second trap is to permit McCain and the Republicans' message on the economy to sound like merely a continuation of Bush's policy. The obvious problem is that the continuation of Bush's tax cut policy is a necessary part of any economic recovery policy. Indeed, the most important step that can be taken to protect American jobs and keep American-based companies from moving offshore is to reduce our corporate tax rates sharply.

Currently, the United States has the second-highest corporate tax rate of all industrial societies, after economically anemic Japan. The U.S. federal rate of taxation is 35 percent, and when the average state and local corporate tax rates are added, American corporations pay, on average, a 39.27 percent tax on their incomes. China is at 25 percent; Mexico is at 28 percent; socialist Sweden is at 28 percent; and prosperous Ireland is at a mere 12.5 percent.

If these comparative rates continue for much longer, the United States economy will mortally bleed jobs and prosperity to a world — both nominally socialist and free market — that has learned the low corporate tax lesson from Reagan's America that current Washington has forgotten.

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Posted By: jack sprat  on Saturday, September 06, 2008

Hey if the economy’s bad, raise the taxes, by trillions, raise food costs through "burning food for oil", nationalize the airlines, nationalize the oil companies, nationalize the housing mortgage lenders, throw in trillions of annual debt in phony "health care" just to make sure no one has decent treatment, since we can't "drill our way out of oil shortages"(huh?), have more “social programs adding $3 trillion more debt, apparently it's a "no brainier" for those proposing these things.

Over taxing corporations won’t send them off shore like it did in Carter’s first term, over taxing investors and investments won’t force them to “hide” money in interest bearing off shore accounts, like it did in Carter’s first term. Raising the cost of producing anything won’t send even more jobs “offshore” and raise prices, like it did in Carter’s first term.

Carter/obama’s second term, ‘cuz we’ll probably survive it no matter how many decades it takes us to erase it, just like Carter’s first term.

Besides, there are a few non-communist countries left in central and south america, just can't have that.


Posted By: Chad Steele  on Tuesday, September 09, 2008

The economy is easy to fix, tax the retards that caused the problem.



Let's call it the responsibility tax.... Republicans get taxed at 85% until the useless brainless retards die out.



Anybody owning up to being part of the stupidest political party in the known universe should have to pay for being such a huge burden on Mankind.



Stupid should hurt.... punch a republican today!

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