Thread: Bachmann Calls for Higher Taxes

Originally Posted by sangha

Bachmann: ‘I Want To Adopt The Reagan Tax Plan’ (Psst…Those Taxes Were Higher!) | Election 2012




Does anyone believe that she knew what she was proposing, or do we all agree that she's dumber than a bag of rocks?

PS - there's video at the link

Well, she was a former federal tax attorney. Surely, she knows what she's talking about.

Originally Posted by AdamT

Indeed, it is a horrible thing if you NEED that spending to avert a depression, or serious recession. Or if voters actually WANT that spending to support a social safety net.



Yes, it is a horrible thing if you don't have enough revenue to pay for the spending that most Americans want.



Absof*ckinlutely a horrible thing if, as we've seen very recently, a paucity of regulation allows the free market to go haywire and implode.



That was Volckenomics -- not Reaganomics.

The thing with "spending what most Americans want" is that the "majority" usually wants contradictory things at the same time. Also just because most Americans don't realize that we're in deep deep trouble with our debt and still want Uncle Sam to keep spending like a drunk sailor doesn't make it the right thing to do. The fact is America's broke, we don't have a revenue problem we have a spending problem, and until more people in America and D.C. want to have an adult conversation about our spending and debt problems we'll continue on a (deserved) road to fiscal Armageddon.

Originally Posted by neocon1225

The thing with "spending what most Americans want" is that the "majority" usually wants contradictory things at the same time. Also just because most Americans don't realize that we're in deep deep trouble with our debt and still want Uncle Sam to keep spending like a drunk sailor doesn't make it the right thing to do. The fact is America's broke, we don't have a revenue problem we have a spending problem, and until more people in America and D.C. want to have an adult conversation about our spending and debt problems we'll continue on a (deserved) road to fiscal Armageddon.

In Introduction to Basic Accounting 101, you will learn that there are TWO sides to a budget - INCOME and EXPENDITURES. Both of those contribute to the bottom line. Most local community colleges offer such a course.

As time goes by I am more and more convinced that Bachmann doesn't really know what she is doing, and is in way over her head. It's not necessarily one big thing, but her lack of detail to the little things keep adding up. I keep asking the question, "Is this the type of attention to detail that you want as President?"

Originally Posted by MaggieD

I am sick and tired of the left (or any other part of the spectrum) calling candidates they don't support "dumber than a bag of rocks" in one form or another. It shows their own ignorance and, worse, their stupidity. If one can't argue against a platform, why doesn't one just STFU?

Its perfectly valid considering that being more intelligent then a bag of rocks is kind of a necessary qualification for the job. The concern here is not so much her platform as the fact that she doesn't appear to understand what her platform is. This will just mean that another idiot who can simply have policy dictated for them by bureaucrats will be in office again, like Bush and Reagan.

Originally Posted by MaggieD

I am sick and tired of the left (or any other part of the spectrum) calling candidates they don't support "dumber than a bag of rocks" in one form or another. It shows their own ignorance and, worse, their stupidity. If one can't argue against a platform, why doesn't one just STFU?

I can see where you're coming from.

But unfortunately in this particular case Bachmann is dumber then a bag of rocks...

Originally Posted by MaggieD

I am sick and tired of the left (or any other part of the spectrum) calling candidates they don't support "dumber than a bag of rocks" in one form or another. It shows their own ignorance and, worse, their stupidity. If one can't argue against a platform, why doesn't one just STFU?

Sorry but Bachmann comes off as being extremely dumb. I wouldn't say that of Romney, Huntsman, Cain, Gingrich, Ron Paul, Paul Ryan, Bobby Jindal, Mitch Daniels etc. etc. even though I disagree with them on many issues and they're all conservatives. You can either claim I'm saying this because Bachmann is extra conservative-ish, or maybe it's because when I listen to her speak she comes across as a ****ing moron.