Comments on: What We Need Now are Tax Cuts

By: Let’s Hope California Isn’t The Model This Time at The Brian Sullivan Blog

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:07:43 +0000

[...] it provides a basis for my recent argument about the need for tax cuts. And this is not just about “the rich.” Consumer [...]

By: STEVE G

STEVE G — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:55:23 +0000

How about us middle class people who have kids in high school and in college. ThE IRS stops our child tax credit when a child turns 16 and when they start college and request loans and grants the govt uses our income on the applications. If you are making over 40000 grants get denied and a ton of tax records are needed for student loans. What I am getting at is; kids are grown at 16 for the child tax to stop but not old enough to use their own income for grants and loans when they turn 18. We need tax cuts and changes to the education system to help these kids get to college so we can prepare ourselves for retirement. Also now that we are trying to bail out the wealthy how about paying us back by cutting capital gains and the death tax.

By: Gary Driscoll

Gary Driscoll — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:08:05 +0000

If anyone who knows me personally has read these characterizations, they will have gotten as much amusement from them as I have. To be described as a “commie-crat” in favor of big government is a huge compliment to my independence. I am usually described as a “right-winger”. If tax cuts lead to prosperity and jobs, then we must now be in a time of high prosperity and low unemployment. Hmmm… Try cutting the spending and size of government before you cut the taxes. Then, if you get more funds from the cuts, you can spend them. It is both cutting the taxes and keeping (or in this case, increasing) the spending that I have a problem with. It is pretty hard to spend yourself into prosperity using borrowed money. Pretty soon you have most of your spending required just to pay the interest on your previous spending.

By: john

john — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:38:14 +0000

We need two things in this shoot out.
1–cut capital gains tax to zero. That will draw some money including mine.
2–Cut the corporate tax from 35% to 15%. That will keep jobs in the usa, and keep companies from outsourcing to Ireland, etc.

Will this happen?? Hell no, because the voters do not have the balls to elect McCain president, and Obama will make the above worse rather than better, and the recession will turn into a depression.
Mark my words Cavuto.

By: David

David — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:36:41 +0000

To Gary Driscoll and the other commie-crats business is evil and big government is good. Sounds to me like they have completely bought in to the marxist doctrine, so class war fare is the order of the day. Our fore fathers knew better, business is the back bone of our country and unlike our government business does not have the ability to “manufacture” money. Hence they must give account to stock holders, banks, government, and others. Our fore fathers also understood that the SMALLER government was the more freedom the people would have, big government is a marxist idea which is completely un-American.

Just who is it the commie-crats give account to? It’s not the American people every year since FDR commie-crats have stolen more and more of our freedom and ability to succeed, all in the name of BIG GOVERNMENT.

Wake up dude and quit drinking the cool-aid served up by the commie-crats, their spin doctors, and of course the drive by media like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and CBS.

Remember in the last century commie-crats killed around 200 million of their own citizens in places like China, USSR, North Korea, North Vietnam, Romania, and other communist countries.

Live free or die

By: Tom Coster

Tom Coster — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:04:30 +0000

I own a business. My taxes go up, I charge my customers more. I don’t pay taxes, My customers do. End Business Tax & Capital Gains Tax & we won’t need a “bail out”

By: Publius

Publius — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:22:26 +0000

Drop the corporate tax rate to 0.
Drop the capital gains tax to 0.
Cut the federal budget by $1 trillion. (Massive layoffs in the beltway region, anyone?)
Watch the economy take off.

By: Tim Kromholtz

Tim Kromholtz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:44:01 +0000

People like Gary Driscoll is why tax cuts will never happen. He can’t understand that business is what makes our country work, he thinks reducing how much the government takes from taxpayers is “spending,” even though it always results in more revenues for the government. No, don’t confuse him with facts, he’s too blinded by envy. No, Democrats would rather hurt wealthy people than have the whole nation prosper. They say as much. It’s a matter of “fairness.” It’s looking like we’re going to put a whole class of politician’s in office whose instincts are to tax us into prosperity.

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:35:56 +0000

Would someone inform Barack Obama?

Attention all Lemmings and Sheeple: Go ahead and vote your “wallet” because come spring you will NOT have a wallet….instead, you will have soup lines.

By: Bill Lockley

Bill Lockley — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:09:23 +0000

Yes i think that the economy should be focused on more and more. The crisis now with DOW industries is hurting the economy terribly. Lowering taxes would be a good thing for the economy because the people would buy more products and increase