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DYLAN: David, The AFL-CIO in Wisconsin is outraged in that state, a state where 2/3 of the corporations pay nothing in taxes and where the percentage of overall state revenue from corporations is down 50% in that state. We all know that the banks were selling fraudulent mortgages to pensions who are trying to keep up with their free-spending governors in order to keep their jobs. What are your thoughts on the situation developing right now in Wisconsin where you’re got a politician trying to eliminate the ability for anybody to tell them — anybody to resist? .. [...] ..
DYLAN: But revenue is off a cliff.
DAVID: Well, revenue has come up because the economy is improving, but if you go back, say, 10 years along for a time revenue has fallen significantly and it’s fallen even though the population keeps growing which should be really troubling us that he population is growing so that we are literally to use Grover Norquist’s phrase “starving the beast,” starving the government, and in Wisconsin you want to go after schoolteachers what you are really saying as a politician if I want my state to be poorer in the future because I don’t want my children to be able to compete in the world economy. I don’t want them to be able to add up, divide, subtract, do algebra, understand science and engineering concepts, as well as the children who are going to school in China and Korea and Japan and Australia and Canada and everywhere else. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=60128304 ..
Bonuses for Billionaires .. [...] .. Cut, Cap and Balance would go even further than the Ryan budget plan in starving the beast of government. Sure, that’ll mean cuts in Social Security, Medicare and other programs, but so what? Who needs food safety? How do we know we really need air traffic control unless we try a day without it? .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65487555 ..
Fiscal Match of the Century: Coburn vs. Norquist By BRUCE BARTLETT, The Fiscal Times March 25, 2011
Occasionally, Norquist is backed into a corner and forced to admit that he doesn’t really care about the deficit. He told the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein on March 9, “The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit.”
When asked to explain how the size and scope of government is reduced by the tax pledge, Norquist fell back on a discredited doctrine called “starve the beast,” which says that tax cuts somehow or other automatically reduce spending and that the only thing to talk about is spending.
Ronald Reagan often supported large tax increases both as governor of California and as president.
To my knowledge, Norquist has never addressed the obvious fact that spending as a share of GDP fell sharply after Bill Clinton raised taxes in 1993 or that spending rose sharply as a share of GDP after George W. Bush cut taxes in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. By Norquist’s logic, spending should have risen under Clinton and fallen under Bush. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=61527668 ..
Our Fantasy Nation? .. [..] .. Now obviously Sarah Palin and John Boehner don’t intend to turn Washington into Islamabad-on-the-Potomac. And they are right that long-term budget issues do need to be addressed. But when many Republicans insist on “starving the beast” of government, cutting taxes, regulations and social services — slashing everything but the military — well, those are steps toward Pakistan. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=63902535 ..
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