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5 Responses to “Non-Sequiter Thread”

1. Josh Says:
   November 27th, 2006 at 8:13 pm

   Any thoughts on Watson as the State Party Chair?
   I like John, but not sure he’s the right guy.

2. John Konop Says:
   November 28th, 2006 at 6:51 am

   Leader quits Christian Coalition over reducing poverty?

   MTB-The Central Florida pastor recently tapped to lead the Christian Coalition of America resigned his position in a dispute about conservative philosophy — more than a month before he was to fully assume his post, he said Wednesday.

   The Rev. Joel Hunter, of Longwood’s Northland, A Church Distributed, said he quit as president-elect of the group founded by evangelist Pat Robertson because he realized he would be unable to broaden the organization’s agenda beyond opposing abortion and gay marriage.

   He hoped to include issues such as easing poverty and saving the environment.

   “These are issues that Jesus would want us to care about,” Hunter said.

   The coalition’s rejection of Hunter’s approach means it is unwilling to part with its partisan, Republican roots, Hunter said.

   “To tell you the truth, I feel like there are literally millions of evangelical Christians that don’t have a home right now,” Hunter said.

   Do you think this is a perversion of priories to worry about gay marriage more than poverty?

3. Donald Says:
   November 30th, 2006 at 4:25 pm

   Bill,
   As a topic for general PV discussion, I’d like to suggest that we consider, and promote, an across-the-board cut in the Georgia state income tax’s top rate of 6% to, say, 5% or lower, along with significant reductions in lower tax brackets. I would also suggest the income level at which the top rate takes effect be raised from 20k to 40K in additional to indexing the standard deduction and personal exemptions for inflation in the same manner as the federal income tax. In an ideal tax reform bill, I would like to see a much flatter rate structure with two tax rates of 2 and 4%.

   This Reaganeque (We in the GOP could use a little inspiration from the master right now) tax reform policy would allow Georgians to keep more of their own money and would stimulate economic growth in the right way, rather than the wrong way of handing out corporate welfare and pork in the form of subsidies and special deals paid for by Georgia taxpayers.

   I close by noting that the GOP can find its way back to a sound footing and its small-government, low-tax center by promoting tax reform and reduction in Georgia. I would be greatly pleased to see the Governor and the GOP General Assembly leadership spend a little more time and effort on reducing taxes and constraining the size of state government rather than concocting new ways to serve as the waterboy of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce (Visions of the rotten “Let’s Steal Private Property and Give it to Developers” Senate Bill 5 dance through my head or touting government secrecy (House Bill 218) as a great way to jumpstart the economy. At the very least, if Republicans aren’t promoting cutting taxes and constraining the growth of bloated government in Georgia, what good are we?

   Any thoughts on this tax idea?

4. Josh Says:
   December 3rd, 2006 at 10:42 am

   Reggie Ball sucks – the good news for the Yellow Jackets is that he’s gone after the Gator bowl

5. Bill Simon Says:
   December 4th, 2006 at 9:50 am

   Reggie must be saving his mojo for the pros or something. Does he already have an NFL contract?