http://www.atr.org/georgia-theres-lack-pledge-signers-looking-a3510

Seems Mr. Stephens wasn’t exactly telling the whole truth when he said he was the first to sign….seems Mr. Evans signed at the same time.

Stephens has no credibility on this issue.

North Georgia has a spirit of independence from statism that is deep rooted in the hearts of the constituency. The people of the Blue Ridge Mountains have a Knoxian social theory that is diametrically opposed to tyrrany, and that is why they will vote for a Congressman who signs the ATR pledge.

The answer for the rest of America is to return to the same philosophy of government that is found in the writings of folks like John Knox.

Until the heart of America changes back to what it once was, I guaran-dam-tee you that spending and taxing and deficit will continue in a downward spiral to the death of this great Republic.

Cutting taxes further will only make that reality worse.

I remember looking at the budget for FY2009 that Bush’s team produced. It showed a SURPLUS in 2012… but only if his tax cuts expired in 2010. If the tax cuts were retained, the budget projections NEVER balanced. He never talked about that publicly for some reason.

I call it “giant baby steps.” The first order of business is to stop all new earmarks and projects. That will be difficult, but in our current environment, not impossible. Then we begin the process of de-funding prior spending commitments, or let them die of attrition.

Because Bush and his Bushettes in Congress in 2005-2006 voted to increase spending and increase the debt load. Marginal rate taxcuts will work GREAT if you maintain the same spending level or (be still my beating heart) seek to reduce spending.

Also, the former Idiot-in-Chief’s decision to invade Iraq also put a big spending load on the nation’s cashflow.

Cutting taxes from 70% to 39% was a large cut and did help trigger a long-term expansion. But it also stopped working after a while. And it never ever closed the budget hole that it created.

Again: if you wipe out the entire discretionary part of the budget except for DoD, you STILL do not close the current budget gap (and that’s before TARP/stimulus spending). That includes every single department of the government except for social security, medicare, DoD and interest on the debt. We are not raising enough revenue to fund the government that the people demand and cutting rates hasn’t and won’t work.

Sorry that you don’t like what reality looks like, but people actually want services from their government (actually, what a lot of them don’t want is services going to other people, but they want to keep the things that they’ve come to expect and get). Denying reality only makes you look foolish.

Fool. Damn fool. Dumbest thing I’ve ever read. This fool thinks you generate more tax revenue by raising taxes than you do by cutting marginal rates.

Can’t wait to see how much total revenue the Obama Administration generates under their new tax structure. Wanna bet it will be less than the years under Bush, Byte?

If you cut everything that’s “discretionary” excluding the DoD (wouldn’t want to be soft on defense, right?), you still can’t close the deficit without raising taxes. And you’ll put a lot of people out of work, which then lowers the tax receipts, so the budget gap gets wider again.

And that doesn’t even include the problem of Social Security and Medicare funding, which is going to be cash flow negative in a few years.

No new taxes? Pfft. That’s kids’ play. Tell us you’re going to cut Social Security and Medicare and we’ll applaud as we watch you go down in flames as a political martyr. Tell us you’ll cut defense expenditures and we’ll tell you you’re soft on national security. Tell us you’ll cut the FDA and we’ll tell you about salmonella poisoning coming from peanuts for lack of food processing plant inspectors. And so on.

It’s easy until you get specific. Then it gets hard. And you still can’t close the gap without more revenues… i.e., taxes.

Cut almost all of the three letter departments of government.

Immediately vote against any new spending increases on current items no permitted by the Constitution, while starting the process of eliminating them.

Not support any new federal program not specifically permissible within our Constitution.

Cut all support to most all foreign governments.

I can make this post as long as anyone wants it to be. No other candidate will even take the time to consider answering such a question on this type of forum. I am here to represent the people, not the well-to-do. I am here to discuss the topics of the day, not send out my surrogates to tell everyone what I “might” do, or what I will do. I will tell you myself.

Sorry for the rant, I am just as frustrated as most everyone else, and my way of doing something about it is to run for office.

http://www.JonesForUs.com

Since you are with ATR, can you verify if Bill signed the Pledge when he was in the State Senate only to break it when he voted to raise taxes in 2003?

No guts, no vote!

The acerbic Mr. Simon’s point cuts to the heart of it — not voting for tax increases is the easy part. When will candidates start promising to vote against larger and larger budgets?