Does Jeb Bush Support Tax Increases?
- Posted on August 24, 2011 at 10:37am by
Billy Hallowell
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On Tuesday, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush appeared on Neil Cavuto’s “Your World” to discuss his family’s relationship with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, GOP criticisms of the Obama administration, and his support for tax increases, among other contemporary political issues.
In declaring his support for revenue increases, Bush separates himself from the majority of his conservative cohorts who have railed against any and all rate hikes. But rather than a blanket statement supporting increases of any kind, the former governor spoke in reference to his willingness to accept new revenues as part of a deficit-reduction plan. Taking a balanced approach, he said:
“I think the problems are so severe in this country that leadership is required to find common ground and solutions.”
To further clarity his statements, Bush made sure to draw a distinction between tax increases as they pertain to a budget deal and the general leftist view that taxes should be raised on the rich. In making his point, he cited and criticized billionaire Warren Buffet’s recent statements that America should stop “coddling” the wealthy and increase their taxes. Bush said:
“The problem with Warren Buffett’s attitude is he’s talking about people who are already rich, and his policies I think may create a lid on people who are aspiring to be rich. There are 10 other aspiring Warren Buffetts that will find it harder to become rich.”
Also, particularly striking was Bush’s admission that he believes some Republicans go too far in their criticisms of the president. He says that baseless and incessant attacks turn off some people who want solutions:
“It’s fine to criticize him, that’s politics. But just to stop there isn’t enough. You have to win with ideas, you have to win with policies…He’s made a situation that was bad worse. He’s deserving of criticism for that. He’s not deserving of criticism for the common cold on up.”
Bush’s comments will likely spawn both praise and ridicule from conservatives and Republicans, alike. But, regardless of opinion surrounding his policy views, Bush’s honesty may be seen as refreshing in a political climate where leaders typically tell the people whatever they want to hear.
(h/t Gateway Pundit)
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Comments (62)
Pickupabook
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 4:15pmJobs. Education. Business. JEB 2012
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 5:22pmNo Jeb, no more Bushes. They are all NWO and Bildeberg people. It would be a disaster if Jeb were president. No more Bushes please.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 8:34pmAlister Crowley would be proud of his Grandsons
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 9:45pm.
Report Post »“Does Jeb Bush Support Tax Increases?”
I don’t care what Jeb Bush thinks.
I would never vote for him.
AzSage
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 10:52pmI agree. No more Bush’s in the white house. We can’t afford another big government, tax and spend spend spend “republican”
We need a president, and congress, willing to stop making promises they know they can’t fulfill just to get elected and stay in power. We need a president, and congress with big brass balls to put this federal government on a fiscal diet, cut regulatory intursion, and tell the American people the truth about social security and medicare.
A Bush is just more of the same. We need someone else, or we’re doomed as a country.
Report Post »db321
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 4:14pmREAD MY LIP Jeb – No New Tax Increases – Jeb, your 15 minutes are up. America is going to see exponential growth of Business and Job’s for America after the Election of 2012.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 5:03pmYou’re right, Obama’s plan will work if the Republicans shut the hell up.
Report Post »wewantchillywilly
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:42pmuh,jeb, remember what happened when your dad increased taxes?
Report Post »Volsense
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:28pmJeb Jr is pushing Huntsman for president. Nuff said. The Bush line stops with GWB.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 4:29pmBoth Bush’s and Clinton are part of the problem we have now. Allowing jobs to leave the country goes back much farther than that. We only have two choices to fix the problem and I have not heard it from any politician. 1) make us competitive worldwide by reducing cost to match the rest of the world. Red tape, taxes, unions and energy. 2) lock the boarders and be self sufficient, nothing in or out. That would cut the bleeding by a billion a day. Take your pick, nothing else has a snow balls chance in hell, American labor and cost can’t compete with anyone on this planet.
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 5:58pmhuntsman is a liberal “ringer”, and jeb is an idiot…
Report Post »Link8on
Posted on August 25, 2011 at 2:32amReagan was the only president since Nixon not to push the agenda of communist china.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:24pmJeb Bush is not a true conservative, he is not a good politician and he does not have any charisma!
Report Post »southernORcobra
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:18pmI have something to say to jeb it’s two words and the last word is off and the other starts with an F
Report Post »wise grandma
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:59pmNO MORE BUSHS. They are pushing one world goverment. NO MORE BUSHS
Report Post »Mtnmama
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:54pmOle Jeb says we need to compromise – look at where compromise has gotten the US int the last 100 years – a socialist state!
Report Post »Oldtimer2
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:45pmA bird in the hand is not worth two in the Bush…..especially not a third one. We can thank Bush 1 for letting the UN into our business and into our own backyards with his backing of Agenda21 and it’s sustainable development, smart growth, job killing environmental regulatory policies and global redistribution of wealth that is crippling this nation. And Bush 2,,,,we must abandon free market principles in order to save the free market. Oh really? How’s that working out for us? Read my lips, no more Bushes!
Report Post »geo01
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:30pm.
Report Post »JEB BUSH?
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WHO CARES WHAT JEB BUSH SUPPORTS?????????????
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Go visit your brother on the ranch, and stay out of Politics.
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poster
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:30pmTo steal an eloquent phrase…. “Get out da Bushes”. (for best effect, must be said in a gravelly voice with mouth full of marbles)
Enough with the Bushes already. Retire. Get a hobby. Spend more time with your families. These RINO‘s are afraid they’re going to lose their positions of power within the Party, so now we see them everywhere yapping to the MSM. I, for one, am out da Bushes!
Report Post »Cat
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:22pmThis guy has got to get out of our way, or laughed out of our way.
Report Post »Every time there is a ‘comprehensive approach’ to the government’s budget, it ALWAYS ends up being the same scenario.
Raise taxes first, then no cuts and increased spending.
It happens EVERY TIME!
That’s why we’re in deep doodoo now Mr. Bush
Get lost Bozo …
popeyebedford
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:12pmJeb Bush is a soft RINO republican who apparently has not realized that the democrat party is no longer the loyal opposition, and must not be compromised with. They must be defeated. Until the Marxist democrat party is either destroyed or disintegrates due to its own promises that it will never ever be able to deliver on we all must consider the present democrat party the enemy of liberty and free markets…
Report Post »Jesus.H.Christ
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:06pmYou have no idea what Marxism is.
Explain how your country is anything like a marxist one?
NHwinter
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 5:27pmPopeye has probably been watching the transformation of America with all the goals of a Marxist agenda. Who are you JesusHChrist to tell him he has no idea? You don’t know him or what he knows. Gosh, what arrogance.
Report Post »Jesus.H.Christ
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 5:53pmNHW
So he’ll have no trouble explaining how the democratic party are anything like Marxists then. That’s why I asked him. It’s really funny how you instantly accept what he has written, but are instantly offended by my comment. I ask absolutely no special favours. I only ask that when anyone makes a statement like that, that you ask for an explanation. Be sceptical about every argument, and look into facts.
However, as you seem to buy in to this “marxist agenda” nonsense, then you too, will have no trouble explaining it to me, and how it compares with what Democrats are actually trying to achieve.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 6:20pmIdeology and socioeconomic theory developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The fundamental ideology of communism, it holds that all people are entitled to enjoy the fruits of their labour but are prevented from doing so in a capitalist economic system, which divides society into two classes: nonowning workers and nonworking owners. Marx called the resulting situation “alienation,” and he said that when the workers repossessed the fruits of their labour, alienation would be overcome and class divisions would cease. The Marxist theory of history posits class struggle as history’s driving force, and it sees capitalism as the most recent and most critical historical stage — most critical because at this stage the proletariat will at last arise united. The failure of the European Revolutions of 1848 and an increasing need to elaborate on Marxist theory, whose orientation is more analytical than practical, led to adaptations such as Leninism and Maoism. In the late 20th century the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern bloc allies seemed to mark the end of Soviet Marxism as a practical political or economic model. Meanwhile, China adopted many elements of a free-market economy in what it called a development rather than a repudiation of Marxist theory. In the West, Marxism continues to be appreciated as a critique of market capitalism and a theory of historical change. See also Communist Manifesto; dialectical materialism; socialism; Stalinism; Trotskyism.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 6:28pmI’m having trouble posting on this site. So this will be short. If you read about Marxism you will see how the Obama agenda lines up with Marxism. Redistribution of wealth, Agenda 21 with its intention to take land out of personal ownership, and the methods they are using to take over private businesses, banks, spending America into insolvency, giving Stimulus money to foreign banks and countries, piting one group against the other, unions, etc. Call it Socialism, Marxism, Communism, Liberalism. The goal is the same. It has not worked, it will not work.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 6:37pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQf_QfitmKE&feature=player_detailpage
Hope that works, great, short clip.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 25, 2011 at 12:55amMarxism is an economic and social system based upon the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. While it would take veritably volumes to explain the full implications and ramifications of the Marxist social and economic ideology, Marxism is summed up in the Encarta Reference Library as “a theory in which class struggle is a central element in the analysis of social change in Western societies.” Marxism is the antithesis of capitalism which is defined by Encarta as “an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit.” Marxism is the system of socialism of which the dominant feature is public ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:07pmThe little that I watched of Cavuto’s show made me seriously wonder if Jeb was auditioning for the democratic party. Things like ‘Bloomberg has been great for New York’ and ‘Obama has good intentions’ is exactly the kind of RINO we now have.
Report Post »mtnhimike
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:02pmI am sick of the Bush family….G. W. will not be a man and stand up for himself and hit back at Obama and The Democratic Socialist Party that keep bad mouthing him and along comes Jeb Bush who want so give Obama slack and not hold him accountable. Jeb go back to FL and take care of your druggie daughter and stay away from the GOP.
Report Post »Oldtimer2
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:35pmA bird in the hand is not worth two in the Bush, especially not a third one. We can thank Bush 1 for letting the UN into our business and into our own backyards with his backing of Agenda21 and “sustainable development” and “smart growth”. Bush 2 “we have to abandon free market principals to save the free market” Oh really? Read my lips, no more Bushes!
Report Post »Brushjumper
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:57pmJust another RINO and IF he ever runs my family will NEVER vote for him…
Report Post »RedinLouisville
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:03pmyep. No more bushs, no more clintons, and absolutely no more obamas.
Report Post »Applehead
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:25pmHis bro left our borders wide open for 8 years and Jeb was in 100% agreement, spent American tax dollars for Israel and is responsible for thousands of American lives that went to Iraq and Afghanistan to nation build for Israeli security! NO MORE BUSH’S!!!!! They are not conservative! Barbara Bush needs to keep her mouth shut and quit bashing Sarah Palin!!!! Georgie’s daughters and wife are liberals!!! Jeb is another fake conservative that would finish off the Republican Party!!!
Report Post »DallyWama
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:54pmWho really cares what another Bush has to say. Jeb, George, and Karl almost destroyed the party.
Report Post »akersm
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:48pmOne should ask, why was Jeb spending time in Chicago over the weekend with a group of Obama supporters at the Hyatt on Wacker? Just asking????
Report Post »MastrSSG
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:40pmHe sounds smart to me. He at least thinks things through and doesnt tell you what you want to hear.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:53pmJust say NO to Bush!
Report Post »mr anarchy
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:39pmany america goes to prison for idenity theft…fraud–ect ect illegals dont…
Report Post »each illegal who works with false papers are commiting felonys…
no amnesty-period
rfycom
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:38pma more reasonable republican
Report Post »Shredda11
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:32pmThe problem is, the second we agree to a “balanced approach”, the government will take the taxes but push back the cutting for another year. This of course means the cuts will never be implemented, hence the government growing by about 8% a year.
I like that he spoke out about Buffett though!
Report Post »babylonvi
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:17pmJeb is nothing, finished, kaput. He would be worse than BHO bu selling us out not only to the globalists, but to any private interest with the money to pay for it(just like Rick Perry). He tried to sell of a 90 mile long section of I-75 to the same Spanish interests Perry was trying to sell parts of Texas to. No More Globalists.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:38pmExactly. be gone BUSHES !!! Prescott was a global elite that started the CIA. George Senior is a ‘Ex”CIA / NWO global elite. Junior was just a daddy’s boy, following daddy’s orders, and Jeb is more of the same crap !!!!
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:05pmHE ALSO SAID DON’T ATTACK OBAMA… TOO BAD, THEY SHOULD DO IT MORE…
Romney made his newest attack on Obama and Unions in his new ad: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/aug/romney_obama_unions.html
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 12:54pmyou mean he’s not to blame for the common cold? Darn it I’ve been blaming him all day for feeling so crummy
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