Ron Paul 03 07 09 DL Hughley Show

[wildbilln864]

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DL Hughley interview Ron Paul.
Ron Paul says, "Suspend the Federal Income Tax."
I like that idea myself!
:hi:

[sam sarrha]

1. he makes the NeoCons look like Boy Scouts.. .. F'n Nazi

[Reform]

3. could you please elaborate

i heard nothing even close to any Nazi talk little lone neocon talk.
I agree with Paul on some issues to be honest such as his economic policies in respect to the gold standard and ending the federal reserve, i also feel the same about his foreign policy approach.
I don't understand why you would attack the man in such a fashion

[Zynx]

5. Ending the Fed and bringing back the gold standard makes no sense.

If you believe in classical economics that might make sense. If you in any way, shape, or form believe in Keynesian economics it does not. I frankly don't see how you can be a Democrat if you are not a Keynesian of some fashion.

[sam sarrha]

8. those guys want a stratified society, no public schools, a plutocratic cleptocracy

next step is to scapegoat the poor, cause wealth proves gods favor of a man, it is a sin to tax or regulate a rich man ..corporation.. listen to his ilk on the radio..

[SkyDaddy7]

9. Because Ron Paul has Racist Past!!

That would be why folks call him a NAZI!

[pam4water]

2. Ron Paul is as funny as Rush. "We're going to tax the entertainers." That some weak ass fear

mongering. I swear most of the CNN anchors are afraid of that though. I guess they all make over $250,000.

[digidigido]

4. Ron Paul is a very dangerous man. He says much that rings true, but his belief

that government is the problem would be horrendous right now. Government has to be the solution right now.
That was Reagan's belief and was the beginning of the decline of American prosperity. He's also wrong about
taxes going down after WW 2. In truth, taxes did not drop significantly until Kennedy was president in 1960.
The top marginal tax rates were in the 90% range during WW2, (that's what happens when you fight a war, taxes
get raised to pay for it, and everyone shares the sacrifice because it is worth dying for) taxes stayed in the 90%
range through the Korean conflict, and didn't decline until Kennedy lowered the top tax rate (which was on
income above $2.5 million) to about 70%, or roughly 2x what it was under Bush (as he fought 2 wars, and fought
them with a private army involved as well),

[burning rain]

6. Upholding the progressive income tax is a very basic issue for Democrats.

Suspending it is just a stalking horse for abolishment, a plutocrat's dream, something even most Republicans are too cautious to propose. Those who aim to abolish the income tax would -- you can be quite sure -- keep all the payroll taxes.

I can't imagine how any lefty could embrace Ron Paul. He opposed the Iraq War and Bushy attacks on civil liberties, great, but that reflects his anarcho-libertarian ideology: from a lefty point of view he's doing the right things for the wrong reasons. On economics he aims to take us back to a 19th century robber baron economy. Aw, haaaa-ell, NO!

[bulloney]

7. I'd like to see ONE of these politicians proposing suspending the income tax or having tax holidays

tie their proposal to cutting their own wages and benefits. Many of these people look to the private sector as a model from which to run the government. OK. If you're going to cut the revenue stream, all government employees should see a cut in their compensation, based on some formula tied to the tax suspension.

I'd bet you'd hear a lot of crickets chirping at the idea.

[penguin7]

10. The critique of Ron Paul here is weak and shallow.

A corrupt wasteful government can do more harm than good.

We have too many dishonest politicians and few honest ones. Ron Paul is honest and the comments here are an attempt tarnish Ron Paul's honesty with disagreements over his idealogy.

[Mark D.]

11. Key Points Overlooked

Hugely ignored the 'created dependency' part. Bullshit. And Bullshit to you "Paulists" up there who feel we've no right to question the perfect Paul. YES, there is a small percentage of people that don't want to work, freeloaders, who give a system of support a bad name. The majority do not. Most Medicare goes to who? Not fat ladies with five kids eating potato chips watching TV who never worked a day in their lives. It goes to totally disabled people in nursing homes. Ron Paul let go of a tidbit of info there that did not fully take the interviewer or sucked in believers here down his rabbit hole.

I agree with taking money out of foreign wars for profit. I despise the Federal Reserve. But Paul is in favor of eliminating all social programs. Period. No Social Security, no Health Care programs for anyone, old or disabled. Unacceptable. When directly asked once about this, and what he'd do to fill the gap for those who really need it, he said something like this, I'm not making this up: "Well, I dunno, charity." Charity? In the 1700's there was a movement in Europe against Charity, on the basis that IT created poverty. Knowing they could sleep in some church, or get food from some shelter, the poor decided to be poor.

Just unbelievable. And many who supported that then, and this kind of crap today call themselves Christians. Paul is against the govt being 'in our lives' except for women's reproductive rights. Then he considers a woman making a personal medical decision with her doctor in the first trimester a 'murderer'. Right. Some liberty there. Don't tread on me(n). His 'solution' on the health care crisis? None. Just keep it going like it is now. After millions more are thrown off insurance plans he would eliminate, the number of uninsured will double, and profits will just continue to rise for the elite health insurers involved in that for-profit ponzi scheme.

His solution is to privatize everything. Survival of the fittest. Good luck on your own. I believe in hard work, and I have lived that my whole life. I'm a child of blue-collar parents. Union workers. I once had a union job almost 20 years ago that paid $3 an hour more for the same work I do now (for $3 an hour less). Everything costs twice as much. This is a plan to eliminate the middle class. But dare we ask for a tariff on corporations exporting jobs. Dare we ask those corporations have no more tax loopholes. Dare we ask what Obama did in the campaign, that nobody who works full time should be poor in America.

Suddenly, we are socialists for saying that. No. Fuck that. Throwing money at the rich by privatizing everything, cutting or eliminating their taxes, deregulating everything so they can kick their pig-out orgy into even higher gear is the answer to nothing, but to prove who HE answers to, the corporate elite. He is a corporate liberal whore, and it's why he can't find a bad word to say about Limbaugh, who is yet another. Dennis Kucinich supports eliminating the Fed as we know it. And unlike Ron Paul's meat throwing, he actually will be proposing legislation to do just that. He means business, Paul works for big business.