Leave it to Rick Santorum to take the Sanity to zero-zero-zero. Forget Herman Cain.
“I’ve got a better plan. It’s the zero-zero-zero plan,” the GOP presidential candidate and former senator told the Value Voters Summit.
Santorum said his plan would levy zero taxes on repatriation of funds invested overseas, cut corporate taxes for manufacturers to zero and eliminate every regulation put in place by President Obama.
For a few seconds, I tried figuring out what the point would be of repatriating untaxed dollars only so you could continue not to tax them. But then I remembered that none of this is supposed to make any sense. How can I fix the deficit? I’ll tell everyone being investigated by the IRS that they can keep their money and whatever dodgy tax-cheat crap they’ve been doing is now legal.
Little Ricky is also going to throw away every single regulation that the Obama administration has put in place. He isn’t going to examine the regulations or anything. He’ll just look at the date they were implemented and if it was after January 19th, 2009, he’s chucking them.
Also, too, no more taxes on corporate profits in the manufacturing sector. You and me will have to make up the difference.
It’s only a matter of time before some Republican candidate promises to eliminate all taxes on everything and to sell off all government property.
Didn’t Michele Bachmann already offer to do that? I mean, she’s so incoherent that she has conflicting statements, but she did say that, “You earned every dollar, you should get to keep every dollar that you earned,” the candidate said. “That’s your money, that’s not the government’s money.”
Of course then she adds, “Obviously we need to give money back to the government so that we can run the government.”
So who knows? And Ron Paul definitely wants to sell off government stuff, and he certainly wants to eliminate all federal taxes at some point.
Hell, I can beat that. How about a negative tax rate for the top earners? The government should be rewarding job creators, not punishing them, right?
Negative estate tax.
AKA: bounty on billionaires.
it would be fun to watch the Repugs try to spin voting against it.
And if they voted for it? Even better.
My reflection, dirty mirror
There’s no connection to myself
I’m your lover, I’m your zero
I’m the face in your dreams of glass
So save your prayers
For when we’re really gonna need’em
Throw out your cares and fly
Wanna go for a ride?
Santorum 2012!
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."My impression is that Mitt Romney had his campaign whip up a foreign policy so that he can be seen acting in a Very Presidential Manner by talking about foreign policy and our military posture while Rick Perry flounders about trying to deal with his little campaign hiccup.
The Mittster has done some big things right in this campaign.
Nobody will notice today after the Family Values hit that the TX pastor used to introduce Perry by declaring to media in an interview that of course Mormonism is a cult. John King went nuts, you’d think someone had just found Bachmann’s Kenyan birth certificate!