I would vote for him.

In fact, I think that some folks that are lazy, shiftless, clueless and irresponsible deserve a (cane)
across their backsides.

A Cain advisor is talking about modifying this. It would remove one of the main objections a lot of conservatives have had with the current idea, which is adding a new consumption tax to the existing income tax instead of replacing it.

In a nation of laws, the law should affect everyone equally, or not at all. You can not have laws that treat one person one way, and another person a different way. IMO, it is unconstitutional to have different tax rates. The term “no taxation without representation” means something. If you expect someone to pay far more in taxes than you do, then don’t complain if that person expects to have more representation than you do.

Big government leads to big lobbying. This is the phrase that could unite the Tea Party and the Occupiers.

I’m curious as to whether he has always spent half his time in Canada or if that’s a recent development.

P.S. I’m well aware that other European nations have the same problems. For the same reasons. Running out of other people’s (or other nations’) money.

“Relax. It’s not about American money. The issue is to get Germany to quit torturing Greece and release the funds that have already been agreed upon. If they don’t, Greece will be forced to default. The only involvement of the US and the G20 is to push Germany and France before they knock the world economy off kilter.

The EU has already agreed to boost the emergency bailout fund (for Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, and Greece), to $600 billion euros. And the money’s there. There’s a lot of money in Europe … that’s not the problem.

It’s a subject I know a lot about, having followed it very closely since I live in Greece for a lot of the year.

You’ve been on the end of a very pointed propaganda mill for the past year as regards the economic problems of the EU and who and what is really at fault.

The EU was badly set up and is poorly managed.

Greece has been the scapegoat, despite the fact that the other countries I’ve mentioned are in as difficult shape.

Nothing Germany likes better than a scapegoat.”

It annoys the hell out of liberals because then they have to spend time digging the information back out of their brain with a spoon so they can go back to telling everyone how Buffett’s secretary “pays more taxes” than he does, and that the rich don’t pay their “fair share.” A really dedicated politically-active liberal goes through a hell of a lot of spoons.

The wealthy person’s 10% is more than the poor or middle class person’s 100%. If someone is making $250K a year and paying 10% in taxes that’s $25K in taxes, or 120% more than what someone making $20K a year makes for the whole year.

You don’t need to weigh “heavily” on the middle class, but a tax system where nobody pays income taxes except the wealthy is unworkable, and only “fair” if you destroy the concept of “fair” entirely. We already nearly at that point, as you can see from the data I’ve been posting, and the Democrats want to push it even further that way. Nobody in any tax proposal I’ve seen is proposing hiking taxes on people who are actually poor. Sure as hell that isn’t 47 percent of the country.

The end result of Democratic Party ideas is Greece, where government spending is out of control, and a vast population of wards of the state can no longer squeeze enough blood out of the rock and are rioting in the streets to demand huge benefits that long ago became impossible.

“We all might be surprised how much a truly right wing extremist on social issues could get done just by mandate, but what he directs his Cabinet to do.”

Seriously, are you paying any attention at all to the current administration?