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Rudy’s latest New Hampshire ad

November
29

Rudy Giuliani isn’t letting the controversy over his mayoral expenses slow his ad campaign in New Hampshire. He’s launched a new commercial in the Granite State entitled “Promise” that touts is record as a tax cutter and casts the top Democratic candidates as tak raisers.

“I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues. Democrats don’t know that,” Giuliani says in the ad. “They don’t believe it. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, here’s a promise I assure you they’ll keep. They are making the promise to raise taxes. The only thing I can tell you in addition to that is they’ll raise taxes even more than they promise.”

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This entry was posted on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 5:48 pm by Glenn Blain.
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5 Responses to “Rudy’s latest New Hampshire ad”

  1. Walter Barrett

    “I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues.”

    What?

    Is that like, if you pay somebody less per hour, he’ll have more take home pay?

    Or is it, if we cut taxes (while spending like a drunken sailor), my rich buddies will make more revenue?

    Glad Rudy ain’t the one doing my tax return or balancing my checkbook, I can’t afford his math.

  2. the consultant

    Walter…here is how it works…your rich buddies are still
    rich…but if their capital gains taxes are lowered
    then they will take more profits off the table..when
    they do that they may pay at a lower rate but the
    stimulous causes larger absolute revenues to the
    government…spending increases are the problem
    and even national republicans have done a lousy
    job controlling spending…but primarily its the
    war..a war we should not have begun…
    however from an economic point of view..reducing
    the tax rate which john kennedy did in the 60’s
    does increase revenues…Its funny hearing you
    complain about your taxes..but I’ll bet you vote
    for democrats all the time..who have a habit
    of raising taxes…look at the 23% tax increase
    in greenburgh this year….just keep spending the
    money..and your rich buddies will still be rich
    but you won’t

  3. Walter Barrett

    Sorry, consultant, I don’t buy trickle-down economics. Didn’t work during the Reagan years, ain’t gonna work now.

    Tax cuts during a war are unheard of. When you start out with a big surplus, cut taxes, start a war that bleeds the surplus into a huge deficit, you’ll excuse me if I don’t buy into the GOP’s so-called fiscal conservatism. Couple that with Rudy’s cheerleading for the war in Iraq, and his stance on Iran, and that leaves me with very little optimism that things will get better for me or my kids financially.

    BTW, I live in Putnam, so I get to blame my tax rates on Republicans.

  4. the consultant

    I agree as well that trickle down during a war is not
    good policy…and I also agree that if we are in a war
    taxes should be levied to pay for it..”that might affect
    the way Hillary voted wouldn’t you think”
    I also agree that the AMT is a horrible tax..however
    as a general policy taxes discourage production and
    investment not the other way around…but republicans
    have not done a very good job on the deficit…so their
    heart is in the right place but unfortunately they
    spend just as much as the democrats..

  5. Walter Barrett

    How’s this hit you? Warren Buffet complained that he paid a 17.7% tax rate on his $46 million of taxable income in 2006, while his employees paid an average 32.9% tax rate (his receptionist’s tax rate was 30%).

    This was on an interview he did with Tom Brokaw.

    I’d be a hell of a lot more receptive to tax cuts IF guys like Warren Buffet paid the same rate as the rest of us. Just remember guys, when the GOP talks about tax cuts, the folks who get the most benefit from them are guys in Buffet’s income bracket. The average schmoe that makes in the mid six-figures is lucky to get a couple of hundred back. That should be enough to buy gas for a week or two.

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