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9/15/2008
Parins: Choose candidate with the right tax policies
While the Democrats clamor to compare John McCain with the preposterously unpopular Pres. George W. Bush, they and we are ignoring the similarities between Mr. Bush and their man, Barack Obama.
Bush and Obama were both reluctant entrants into the presidential race. Bush was happily governing Texas and pondering a future in Bud Selig’s shoes. NY Times wag Maureen Dowd described him as “Achilles sulking in his tent.” It took some strong polling, big money and power arm twisting to get him into the race – which he ultimately entered more out of duty to his party and his country than to any presidential aspirations.
Obama was similarly reluctant, having only been a US Senator a light 2 years before he had to make a tough choice. The confluence of his bestseller, “The Audacity of Hope,” with the on-ramp to the 2008 presidential election forced some quick thinking. The polling and financing was so good, it coaxed him easily into the race. With Hillary in ascendance, Obama simply rolled the die; no pressure, after all he was just researching his next book. He didn’t really start as a serious candidate.
Bush broke every fundraising record there was. Obama has done the same. They both chased competitors out of the race with their rippling warchests and media mastery. Bush and Obama both faced gravitas problems. Sept. 11, 2001 quickly erased from our memory any questions we had about Bush’s gravitas. He was quick to kick butt and take names. Whatever you think of Bush’s subsequent actions in the war on terror, it certainly started off on the right foot.
Bush also helped allay gravitas concerns by picking Dick Cheney as his VP. Cheney, who was Secretary of Defense for his father, Bush 41, came with executive experience and strong knowledge of government bureaucracy. Obama still suffers from gravitas issues. His choice of VP, Joe Biden, will not help him in this matter. Biden may be grizzled and have some foreign policy chops his partner lacks, but Biden has no executive or bureaucratic experience – the same as Obama. Biden will not be Obama’s Cheney.
Finally, Bush and Obama want tax cuts for the rich. The Bush tax cuts for the investor class, however derided by the left, stimulated the economy and created jobs and income for the middle class. Sadly, he simply laid down when the spenders knocked on the door.
Obama wants to cut taxes for everyone making less than $250,000 a year. He calls this a ‘middle-class’ tax cut. Do you feel anyone making more than $100,000 a year is rich? Obama’s Robin Hood scheme proposes to cut taxes for the rich, while hiking taxes for the super-rich to redistribute to the poor. This Democrat play won’t create jobs and will stimulate the economy as much as those stimulus checks we all used to pay down our credit cards.
In the end, Obama and McCain are really nothing like Bush, despite some similarities. I urge you to ignore the political comparisons and pick the candidate with tax policies that will create chances to earn, not opportunities to spend. This economy doesn’t need more free money, which is what we will get with a President Obama, and at whose expense?
Now, enter stage right, Governor Palin squashing the Obama buzz. Oh that Wisconsin had such a choice, a real tax slashing, in their face, fat cat hunter. I only hope she can hunt the sorely named Wisconsin State mascot, The Badger (Taxidea taxus) and tax us, and tax us....
Enjoy the election pageantry!
Richard Parins is President of the Brown County Taxpayers Association.
COMMENTS
In a recent campaign ad, John McCain suggests he "Took on the republicans and reformed Washington" If the current economic crisis is a product of those reforms God help us. It is time we stop talking about porcine lipstick and begin to worry about the pending Armageddon of financial collapse coupled with a foreign policy likely to get us further embroiled in a war with half the world that is likely to have no end without eradicating half the Moslem world.
frustrated (Mon Sep 15 07:44:59 2008)
People like you are "Haters.!...
You only have opinions, and no answers !..
Why don't you run for president, Iam sure you could get at least the palin womens Vote!
"OBAMA 2008"
"Harry O"... (Mon Sep 15 10:55:58 2008)
As I pointed out before, the financial rot in this country started decades ago, with the removal of the silver and gold standard. I.e, our money USED to be tied to how much gold we had, and therefore there was little longterm inflation.
Yes there were times of horrible inflation, such as during the War Between the States, and the Panic around the turn of the last century.
The Great Depression began as A MARKET CORRECTION; the market had been bloated to unnatural highs, and speculation ran wild. It was turned into the Depression partly by FDR's policies; there is a belief that if he had let the market alone, instead of trying all his make-work schemes, the correction would have lasted only 2-3 years instead of 10.
Our current problems are of our own making: we spend, spend, spend, and eventually it catches up!
emily matthews (Tue Sep 16 07:09:09 2008)
"Sept. 11, 2001 quickly erased from our memory
any questions we had about Bush’s gravitas."
That is true only if you can't remember "The Pet Goat".
Moe Badderman (Tue Jan 13 02:41:30 2009)
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