ROTUND “REPUBLICAN” SAID TO BE UNVEILING INCOME, CORPORATE TAX CUTS
|| By FITSNEWS || This website has pretty much written off the presidential ambitions of New Jersey governor Chris Christie. As have a lot of “Republican” primary voters.
But we’re suckers for specific policy proposals – especially when said proposals involve tax relief. And Christie is scheduled to unveil precisely such a proposal this week – reportedly a simplification of the federal tax code that would lower the top marginal rate to 28 percent and cut corporate taxes from 35 percent to 25 percent.
Hmmmm …
Is that the sort of broad, pro-free market stroke the American economy needs if it hopes to start firing on all cylinders again? Probably not. And we’ll be eager to see the fine print on Christie’s proposal …
But credit where credit is due: He’s offering up a specific tax plan … and it appears to involve some measure of tax relief.
At the end of the day, all candidates for elected office ought to be judged on their answers to three simple questions: 1) How much money are you going to spend? 2) What are you going to spend it on? and 3) Where are you taking it from?
Answers to those questions – assuming they are provided – should tell us all we need to know about a candidate’s views on the size and scope of government. And what its core functions ought to be.
We look forward to posing those questions to all of the 2016 candidates …
6 comments
Christie helped elect Obama.No chance.
I don’t like Obama. He didn’t raise my taxes enough. Nikki Haley at least will raise my taxes. I love paying taxes, like a good little liberal!
Didn’t it just come out that he spent $82,000 on food at NFL football games since becoming Governor? That is a lot of nachos.
There is no ‘simplification’ involved in simply lowering the RATES. The difficult and onerous part of doing taxes is determining what is your INCOME and what are your EXPENSES/DEDUCTIONS. Once that is determined you simply find your income in a table and it tells you exactly what you owe.
The only way to simplify the process is to eliminate loopholes and deductions. Raising or lowering the rate has no affect on simplification.
“Didn’t it just come out that he spent $82,000 on food at NFL football games since becoming Governor? That is a lot of nachos.”
Your buddy Tom Ervin fleeced his donors for about $100,000 before he quit the race,didn’t he?
Wonder what they spent that on? Champagne and shrimp celebrating how they fucked the voters of SC?
Hey aRepublican advocating tax cuts for the wealthy!
WOW!
Yup, that shocked me as well. Real radical thinking with that guy.