Alex Sink, in Delray Beach, calls for extending the Bush tax cuts
by George Bennett | September 7th, 2010
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“I support the extension of the Bush tax cuts because to let them expire is going to hurt our ability to get people back to work,” Sink said. “We need to do everything we can to put people back to work. So that’s why I support the extension of the Bush tax cuts.”
The White House and many Democrats have called for extending most of the income tax cuts, but eliminating them for the wealthiest earners.
Sink said she favors extending all the tax cuts, including the lower rates on all levels of income, capital gains and inheritances.
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September 7th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Smart woman
September 7th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Florida CFO “Alex Sink” was on that “GOVERNING BOARD OF THE DIVISION OF BOND FINANCE” on September 1, 2008 and She approved the 2008A Bond to finance the “Taj Mahal”… Tax And Spend! And Give our money to her NYC investors and millions to Lebanon fro her office scam!
http://www.sbafla.com/bond/pdf/sales/FACMAN08A_POS.pdf
September 7th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Adelade will say anything to get elected.
Just remember she WILL enjoin Florida to Obama’s CAP and TAX bill which will annihilate businesses in FL.
And with those businesses go JOBS.
Alex also favors the democrat education plan…Race To The Top. That’s the federalization of education.
Sink left her bank executive job with $8,000,000 in pay.
What scares me most about her is that her husband and she are power hungry. Bill McBride ran for FL governor and lost and now his wife is running..
uh oh…It’s Florida’s Hillary and Bill.
We don’t need people who are fixed on political power.
SINK, Sink.
September 7th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Demorats are running from Hussein like hes a sinking ship…no pun intended. Its hilarious…demorats will say anything and do anything to get elected.
September 7th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Just say no to Alex Sink!! Her name says it all!!! She will join forces with the Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama!!! His name also says it all!!! Sink,as with all Democrats will say anything to get elected!!! In this election we really have no good choices!! But we can’t continue to believe the Democrats will do anything but follow the lead in Washington!
September 7th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Native said: “Just say no to Alex Sink!! Her name says it all!!! She will join forces with the Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama!!! His name also says it all!!!”
I guess today must be the day they let the inmates use the computer at the state mental hospital. Anyone who accuses our president of being a terrorist clearly has issues with regard to sanity.
September 7th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Utter pandering, no principles, no solid positions on any issues, just whatever pollsters and soundbyte experts tell her. And she raises all that special interest money just to pay them for it. Pathetic. This is why I’ll be voting for Michael E. Arth.
September 7th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
The over-the-top fear & hate-mongering rhetoric in a number of prior comments should serve as ample explanation of why it is so important to prevent extremist divide & conquer types like Rick Scott from attaining political power. For any and all reservations that progressives and moderates may have about Sink, what matters now is turning out a massive vote for her anyway, uniting to fight off attempted power grabs by the angriest, most dangerously destructive elements in American politics – political wannabes like Rick Scott, and screaming meanies like those who so blatantly reveal their true colors in comments above.
September 7th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
The Democrats are so stupid. She is in favor of this….now we are going to really loose!
September 7th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
@JT Orland!! You must have voted for The Terorist Barack Hussein Obama!!! Let me ask you. How is that change working for you?? He has spent more money than any sitting President in the amount of time the crook has been in office!! Comment on the artical! Not the Post!! I served in the Armed Forces! How about you? How’s that welfare working for you!
September 7th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
how will letting them expire hurt getting people back to work? sounds like unsubstantial spin from a politician. is she just playing it safe, or not have a real answer or something more ominous? Any answer is indicative of lack of true leadership.
According to the CBO, Letting the high-income tax cuts expire and using the money for aid to the states, extensions of unemployment insurance benefits and tax credits favoring job creation would more effectively stimulate the economy. Each of these measures would have about three times the impact on GDP as continuing the Bush tax cuts.
Less than 2 percent of tax returns reporting small-business income are filed by taxpayers in the top two income brackets. Continuing cuts to the rich would miss more than 98 percent of small-business owners and would primarily help people who don’t make most of their money off those businesses.
September 8th, 2010 at 9:15 am
VOTE NO TO ALEX SINK! Just google her and her husband and you will see why. A lifetime of making money for herself and BAD DECISIONS FOR TAXPAYERS.
TAJ? YEP SHE VOTED FOR IT! etc…
She speaks of getting us more jobs?? HOW?
She does not think the FEDS/ICE should stop or get rid of all the illegals that are costing us trillions and taking jobs.
DEPORT THEM AND WE WILL SAVE SO MUCH TAXMONEY IT WILL BE LIKE FLORIDA/USA WON THE LOTTERY!!
They do not just take jobs americans will not do anymore. Rather than starve as unemployment runs out you will see more hardworking citizens doing something rather than nothing.
Scott is just the lesser of two evils. At least he is a business man AND WANTS AN AZ TYPE LAW FOR FLORIDA. NOW THAT IS A VOTE FOR LEGAL TAXPAYERS.
ANY kind of amnesty is NOT what at least 80% of americans want.
It seems only people who want more relatives to come here on our dole is for it except for a few bleeding hearts. LET THEM PAY EVERY DIME FOR EVERY ILLEGAL THEY LET IN FROM THEIR OWN PERSONAL MONEY-STOP GIVING MINE AWAY. I DONATE TO CHARITIES I CHOOSE.
Having people come to our country Illegally and try to force us to let them stay while ignoring ALL our laws is not who I choose to support.
STOP GIVING THEM MY SOCIAL SECURITY (SSI) AND MEDICAID NOW.
September 8th, 2010 at 10:26 am
The whole concept of the Bush tax cuts was to reduce the tax burden as a means to stimulate job growth. Did it work? No, it did not. The money saved did not create jobs, more jobs were sent overseas. The concept did not work, let it expire and die.
September 9th, 2010 at 2:29 am
In her set of policy proposals that she announced in Delray Beach on Sept. 7th to promote renewable energy, energy independence, and job creation, Alex Sink picked up on, adopted as her own, and seeks to continue some of the same policy initiatives that Florida state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner has pursued, as the leading champion of renewable energy in Tallahassee over the last 8 years, providing crucial Republican leadership on these vitally important issues, with great bipartisan appeal and support across the entire political spectrum, and which represent the hallmark and crowning achievements of Hasner’s tenure as a leader of the legislature:
1) Sink called for implementing Hasner’s PACE initiative (that Hasner sponsored and won passage of in this year’s legislative session) with the creation of local energy financing districts.
2) Sink called for continuing to promote university/industry renewable energy R&D partnerships such as the FAU Ocean Energy Research Center that Hasner helped create and get funded, which Sink specifically cited as her prime showcase example.
3) Sink pledged strong support for solar and renewable energy but made it clear that she won’t support any measures that would raise either taxes or electric rates on individuals, businesses, or utilities. This is the same common sense, reasonable approach that Hasner has taken, consistent with conservative principles, in championing solar and renewable energy over the last 8 years in Tallahassee.
4) As part and parcel of this same set of policy proposals for promoting job growth in the renewable energy sector and throughout the entire economy and instilling business confidence and certainty, Sink also called for extending ALL of the Bush tax cuts, which is a position that Hasner and most Republicans also espouse, … most except apparently Rick Scott, who criticized this entire set of policy proposals.
Rick Scott criticized this entire set of Sink’s policy proposals, calling them “leftist energy proposals”. Though I obviously cannot, and don’t, speak for Majority Leader Hasner, nevertheless as someone who has worked with him in the area of renewable energy and electric transportation, I rather doubt Hasner would appreciate having his very impressive record of legislative accomplishments in championing solar and renewable energy being labeled as “leftist energy proposals”.
I myself am a fiscally-conservative Republican and live in a solidly Republican neighborhood, where some of my Republican neighbors have solar panels on their roofs. My wife and I drive electric cars, and we’re planning to put solar panels on the roof of our home to power both the house and to charge our electric cars. My Republican neighbors don’t appreciate being called “leftist” by Mr. Scott for the personal values, indeed very *conservative* values, and personal responsibility they exercise by choice in their personal lives. And neither do I appreciate being called a “leftist” by Mr. Scott. It is insulting and offensive. By disparaging and denigrating Adam Hasner’s and Alex Sink’s respective very similar, indeed almost identical, energy policies as “leftist energy proposals”, Rick Scott displays the profound ignorance of someone who is out of touch with reality, out of touch with the people of Florida, and out of touch with the people of his own party, as well as utterly lacking in vision and unfit to be the governor of the Sunshine State.
Charles Whalen
Delray Beach
September 9th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Alex Sink has never been a liberal Democrat. She is more of a conservative Blue Dog Democrat. Sink’s views tend to be fiscally conservative and socially moderate. Like most Floridians, Sink isn’t comfortable with taking far right-wing or left-wing stands. Sink has the moderate mainstream views and a strong background to lead Florida.
September 23rd, 2010 at 5:13 pm
To Charles Whelan,
You said “This is the same common sense, reasonable approach that Hasner has taken, consistent with conservative principles, in championing solar and renewable energy ”
This is A LIE! Hasner promised to support renewable energy programs to get elected and then pulled the funding from the residential solar program leaving thousands of homeowners out in the cold!