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You articulate a very clear and concise vision for where it is you believe we need to go. And then you communicate that to people on both sides.
Tom Emmer, October 26, 2010
Tom Emmer is the Republican candidate for Governor of Minnesota. Emmer says taxes, jobs, taxes, jobs, taxes, jobs. It is a simple and easy message to understand.
Emmer's brand of Republican economics have been, simply, disastrous for this nation.
But listening to yesterday's Governor debate, there would be no possible way I could know this. Emmer hit his theme clearly, concisely, repeatedly, and hard, and it went entirely unchallenged.
This election will be about jobs. Democrats create jobs. Republicans destroy jobs. This is the most dependable fact in all of American politics.
This election will be about taxes. Progressive taxation is good for an economy. Flat taxes wreck an economy. Progressiveness of the 1960 federal tax system, versus flatness of the 2004 tax system:
Our economy is currently wrecked, from flat taxation.
Democrats are better for everyone, Republicans are better for no one:
Will some Democratic candidate please articulate a clear and concise vision of this?