George W. Bush: "I Wish They Weren't Called The Bush Tax Cuts"

[kpete]

George W. Bush: I Wish They Weren't Called The Bush Tax Cuts


Growing the public sector is easy, Bush said, “just raise taxes.” Supporting private-sector growth is more challenging the former commander-in-chief said, and requires leaving more capital in the hands of job creators.

“I wish they weren’t called the ‘Bush tax cuts’,” he said, surmising that they would be less likely to be raised if someone else’s name was attached.

“Much of the public debate is about our balance sheet…or entitlements,” Bush said, but the solution in his view is to focus on private sector growth. ”The pie grows, the debt relative to the pie shrinks and with fiscal discipline you can solve your deficits,” Bush said.

“In life, you’re going to be dealt a hand you don’t want to play,” Bush said. “The question is how are you going to play it?”

the rest:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2012/04/10/george-w-bush-i-wish-they-werent-called-the-bush-tax-cuts/


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Follow-Up Question For Romney:

"So, do you think George Bush had anything to do with the conditions Barack Obama faced in 2009?"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/09/1081895/-Mitt-Romney-needs-another-question

[Scuba]

1. WFC?

[Corgigal]

2. and I wish

you were never President. See we're even.

[deutsey]

6. My thought exactly n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Financial advice from a guy who turned everything he ever touched to shit.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Jules weighs in

[Submariner]

5. So says the beneficiary of a corrupt and partisan right wing activists SCOTUS

that appointed a blithering idiot with unearned legacy degrees that LIED the country into a failed oil grab war while crashing the U.S. economy.

Yeah, I Wish They Weren't Called The Bush Tax Cuts either. If anything, they should have been Gore tax cuts, if any. Go drink yourself into oblivion and early cirrhosis of the liver you POS.

[JHB]

10. Yep, he's back to promoting shoe sales. n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. .

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. You grow the private sector by growing an affluent consumer base.

"Job creators" don't create jobs in the absence of consumers to buy the products. The root cause of our problems is wealth inequality. You don't grow the economy by cutting services that the 99% depend on to give to the 1%.

[JHB]

9. Most of us aren't dealt your daddy's Rolodex

We don't really need lectures on discipline and finances from a guy who consistently failed upward because his contacts were worth more than he was.

And if you didn't want your name attached to them, Dubya, maybe you shouldn't have pushed them. Most non-morons consider that an obvious thing.

[leftyohiolib]

11. financial opinons from a stooge who bankrupted everything with his name on it

[yellowcanine]

12. Yeah well Georgie, we wish they weren't called that also. That would mean you never were

President. Which is just fine with us.

[Lucy Goosey]

13. Way to miss the point, Dubya.

The tax cuts are widely disliked because they are bad policy, not because they happen to bear your name.

[DCKit]

14. The tax cuts? Probably the least of the various unAmerican acts under Bushco*...

but still, by no means, inconsequential.

[gratuitous]

15. You still don't have a clue, do you Commander Bunnypants?

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