Discussion for article #228049
How can this woman be close in this race? How??
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Is this the pig castrator? The one who claimed she missed state house meetings because of her military commitments and was really just AWOL? Is that poor excuse for a Republican still hanging around??
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I like it. Playing offense is the way to go. More please.
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Iowans are not stupid, and they’re really not al that conservative (except for certain social issues) so your question is a good one.
Ernst is the Sharron Angle of 2014.
And she should suffer the same electoral fate.
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In Iowa the no tax increase pledge is a positive. How could
any American vote for a monarchy and open borders???
I’d vote for the castrated pig over any Democrat. Wake up
America.
You have to love the no taxes pledge. Bush and the Republicans claimed that because Clinton ran budget surpluses that everyone was paying to much in taxes and we deserved a tax cut. Of course the only way to pay off the national debt (the deficit) is to have budget surpluses. Your children and grandchildren will have to pay off the national debt (the deficit) eventually, and tax cuts now or in the future will not reduce the debt that the Republican created with two wars that were never paid for because of the tax cuts. In the past we always raised taxes to pay for wars, wars are costly and they are not free. Republicans love to spend money if it benefits them, they just do not like to raise taxes to pay for what they spend.
Then there is supply side economics. The concept is that all business are marginal and cannot get the money to grow their business by any other way than a tax cut, which cannot be factually accurate to begin with Most businesses are successful, not marginal and successful businesses can usually get the extra money to grow. They are not depending on a tax handout from the government to stay in business. A recent survey of the worlds billionaires is that they currently have an average of $600 million in cash which is an increase from the $540 million average from last year, I guess that tax increases really did not hurt after all. When Buffet said that tax cuts were not needed, he knew what he was talking about. However, tax cuts do give the truly wealthy more money to buy the government with.
The top five percent of tax payers pay over 50% of the taxes, any general tax cuts are not going to grow the economy by any significance. Actually there is no correlation between taxes and growth. Economic growth occurs with or without tax cuts, we even had growth with the top rate at 94% to pay for the war. While the top five percent claim how unfair it is that they have to pay the majority of taxes since they control over 60% of the national wealth maybe they are still not paying their fair share in taxes. Our income tax structure is supposed to be based on who can best afford to pay the taxes, not how much of the tax burden can be forced onto people who cannot afford to pay the tax burden placed on them.
Derp.
It’s Iowa.