Governor Tim Pawlenty's Interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday

[MickyG4444]

Drop the corporate tax rate and reduce government spending in a time of recession. Terrible idea. Does anyone here honestly believe we are in this mess because corporations are over regulated? We need education reform, the future will be won by the country with the highest skilled workforce. We have 5 million jobs that need filling in high -skiled labor markets but cannot find qualified Americans. The markets are there, the workforce is not.

[gi624]

When will Obama cut the deficit in half? Pawlenty cuts through Obama's false promises so easily.

[MickyG4444]

@gi624 Pawlenty is a lightweight. He shot himself in the foot when he wouldn't address Obamneycare at the debate, and since then he looks weak and he's just been attacking everybody to try and look tough.

[Kamaji11]

Wallace cuts through this guy's BS so easily.

[bond519]

@Kamaji11: Wallace is just another Liberal ass kissing media fake. Maybe he should try some real Journalism?

[davidasul]

This man is a concept seller, nothing more. How can people begin to see through these bad sales people, before they do so much damage it cannot be undone? The billions in China, India and other parts of the world are competing vigorously. We cannot afford to be blinded by false sales people, who blatantly mislead the voters with bad information. How can people begin to see through these things and support truthful, actionable, specific leadership?

[davidasul]

The way to stimulate business job growth is to offer a reward IF businesses create activities that result in jobs, and WHEN they prove they have done it. Then they earn the reward. (If we pay for a service before we receive the service, we might never get the work done because the service provider has no INCENTIVE). The cuts they propose are once again backwards. Offer INCENTIVES, not GIVE AWAYS.

[davidasul]

A tax cut to a business (owner) does 1 thing. It puts more money in their pocket. They only want to hire more staff if they have a growing business and need more people to grow it more, and if they can make money off those people's labor. The purpose of a business is to make a profit for the owner. What will business owners do with tax cuts? Same thing as before. Put it in their bank account.

[davidasul]

Cutting expenses on an income statement does not mean job "growth". Cutting expenses, like labor, means unemployment for the many people in government right now. So, where will those people work? Will they move to China where most goods are manufactured? No.  Just cutting off expenditures does not "create" anything.

[mjimih]

Tim has done nothing but starve Minnesota of revenues for schools and roads (things considered the "commons" that Gov. runs because profit-making in those areas actually stifles progress by raising costs n slowing progress), by redirecting allocated funds from our general funds to his pet projects. He'd say he had a plan, wait until the voting deadline approaches (regular session), then spring it on us and expect us to like it without enough time to debate.

8:15 shows Tim the idiot

MN resident

[q1q1q127]

@mjimih Progressive scum, taxes are not "revenues."

[mjimih]

@q1q1q127 "..taxes are not "revenues."

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yes they are. as more people work at better wages, they'll pay more into the system the Gov uses for entitlements (aka "the commons" roads-bridges, social security-welfare, fire-police, military, education). If everyone able to work (very low unemployment) was making a living wage, then the tax rates could be even LOWER. doh! They are lower now than when Reagan was in, but the pay to the few workers working hasn't kept up with the cost of living.

[mjimih]

Minnesota has rapidly rising property taxes, huge potholes, and smaller less efficient schools ALL BECAUSE OF TIMMY'S ANTI-TAX stance. He hates taxes, gov can never be too small. He also was gone most of the time. He also redirected monies by executive order then wants it permanent. He uses fiscal tricks. We used to be a healthy state, now we're like any other State run by Republican't tax hawks

He is also good at lawyer-speak to make you think he's smart, it's all BS BEWARE!!!!!

MN resident

[TheJacobWoods]

Just because you have a plan, doesn't mean the senate and the house will like it very much if Pawlenty gets in. 

[TheJacobWoods]

The president has power in foreign affairs not here at home. #fail

[gi624]

@carolo107 I see what you're saying. The question I have is are these programs that should've been cut that the Democrats think are untouchable? How would you balance the budget without cutting the deficit or raising taxes? The way I heard it is he cut what he thought should be cut to balance the budget but the Dems reinstated it after he was gone and that is the debt they now have. That explanation sounds more likely to me. Is there a program the Democrats can do without? Tim P is like Christie

[xoxak888]

I like Pawlenty but pawlenty's tax plan is not gonna work under social welfare nation scheme. It may work if we completely remove all social welfare programs in their entirety. Protecting the riches is the weakness of the republicans as protecting the illegal aliens is the problem with Democrats.

[gi624]

@carolo107 The way I heard it explained is after he left office the big spending Democrats raised taxes to fund their pet projects like they always do. Why didn't they cut spending? I'm not from there so I don't really know, but that sounds like a reasonable explanation. If we had to choose between two people to cut spending, would it be Pawlenty or a Democrat?

[gi624]

@UBSCARED Yeah, looks like Pawlenty might be the right guy ,ScaredUB....is this what you do, comment on conservative candidates for president?

[bond519]

@UBSCARED: Oh, I see, you use Obamanomics. And you say that I don't have a clue? Look in the mirror fool. And again you don't read clearly so I guess that explains why you like that idiot Obama. So before you misquote again you should read better. Otherwise You are wrong.

[SirSci]

This is why I like Pawlenty. He has real solutions, he answers questions directly instead of skirting around the questions like so many politicians do, and he makes sounds, logical statements. Pawlenty needs to be the next president of the United States.

[ninuxy]

Governor, Wallace handed your ass on a diamond platter.

The close to 5% growth came after tax increase not tax cuts.

[420madrick]

In 2009 Gov. Pawlenty vetoed against a bill that would have allowed terminally ill patients to use medication that could ease their pain in their final days. Is this the kind of person you want in the white house? If you had a loved one that was sick,hurting, or dieing, would you deny them use of a medication that could ease their suffering? Gov. Pawlenty with his vote said he does not care about Americans. He even reinforces this in this interview.

[SammytheBammy1]

Stretch goal. Aspirational goal. LOL ROFL

[bond519]

@UBSCARED: I would rather have Junk republican economics that work than Idiot Obama who's economics are just spend, spend, spend, spend, spend. Oh Yeah. and spend spend and spend some more.

[funnyd00ds]

You have my vote, Tim.

[hermonm]

THE 15 MOST POPULAR ICE CREAM FLAVORS (Flavor, percent preferring) 1. Vanilla, 29% 2. Chocolate, 8.9% 3. Butter pecan, 5.3% 4. Strawberry, 5.3% 5. Neapolitan, 4.2% 6. Chocolate chip, 3.9% 7. French vanilla, 3.8% 8. Cookies and cream, 3.6% 9. Vanilla fudge ripple, 2.6% 10. Praline pecan, 1.7%

[bond519]

@UBSCARED: I will agree with you. BUT. The republicans are not the ones that have doubled the government spending in the first year of his Presidency. Why do you people protect the most fiscally irresponsible President in Ameica's history? Why do you protect the most morally irresponsible president in history? Obama has spent more money on stupid crap. Obama has played more golf, been on more vacations and done more personal spending then any other President in history. We can not afford him.

[420madrick]

@bond519 Sorry I did not mean to vote on this much less to have vote down on it and now it will not let me retract the vote. Sorry.

[MrGenXer]

I really want to like this candidate. His cut proposals are SS, medicaid, medicare. Well, I strongly agree we need to reform them, but we don't have enough votes in congress to begin even touching those programs. It will take time to educate the public. We can cut billions on cutting back on our far flung military deployments.

[MrGenXer]

Also, I have no problem with Pawlenty's personality. I think he's a funny guy.

[sheridanbucket]

Chris Wallace FTW! Ya got pwned, Tim. Your ideas are interesting; however, the applications for those ideas need a little shake down to assure that they are doable. If they are doable, the first people would take advantage of them, immediately, would be your fellow Republicans in the House-- we would not need to wait for 2013 to put them into action. Until then, it's just all fluff without any stuff.

btw: O'Reilly simply meant "vanilla" as being plain, ordinary, unexciting.

[MrGenXer]

@sheridanbucket lol, Pawlenty understood what O'Reilly meant. He was making a double entendre joke about "vanilla."

[sheridanbucket]

@MrGenXer We disagree. Pawlenty was caught off guard by the O'Reilly sound bite and was visibly uncomfortable while he searched to understand O'Reilly's angle. There was no play on double entendre, especially that the secondary meaning was not risqué. In fairness, Wallace should have played the brief O'Reilly clip in full, for Pawlenty to comprehend. Pawlenty hastily made the correlation to race, appearing to take it that he's too "White" to appeal to mainstream culture. It was a simple flub.

[gi624]

Pawlenty has the right idea and doesn't talk fantasy like the Progressives....the Soviet Union already tried the Obama plan. Pawlenty was governor of liberal Minnesota....he knows how to deal with the welfare state mentality. The question is does he have the ability to keep multinational corporations from draining the country? At the least he's one candidate who has enough sense to promote innovation and energy efficiency from all available means and doesn't act like a toady for one industry.

[zasabiibasaz]

@gi624 the soviet union gave out unemployment benefits?

[gi624]

@zasabiibasaz Some of us conservatives don't know much about Pawlenty and are trying to decide if he's our guy. There are Progressive places for you to make silly comments.

[blancaster82]

@gi624 i like this guy

[zasabiibasaz]

@gi624 silly comments such as "the Soviet Union already tried the Obama plan"

[Creationcreed]

I saw the whole interview and Chris Wallace was great! He tries to get real answers, not letting them get away with cliche'. Some Democratic, and even We conservative, are tired of that stuff.

[LeifEiriksson]

Pawlenty is better than Romney but not as good as Ron Paul.

[Wiscotaz61]

He lost my vote at 14:53 for now regarding taking stimulus money. "If the Federal Government was stupid enough to give it to us, we are smart enough to take it". Attitude on why entitlement programs are abused and misused".

[rushlimbang]

the emporer has no clothes.  Pawlenty is finished.

[seldomseen6]

Chris Wallace ran over Tim Pawlenty economic plan. Tim Pawlenty could not defense his ideas. Please do not waste you time or money on this FOOL!

[Thanasig]

The difference between the current spending and the 18% model is 1 trillion dollars in saving. At 18% or lower that trillion dollars is coming into your and my pockets and I don't see how you can complain about that, please tell me the name of even ONE other candidate who has proposed letting us keep 1 trillion dollars of our money.

[bond519]

The Government has a Spending Problem not an Income problem. Obama and the Government have an expensive spending plan with no regard to figuring out who is going to pay for all the Government buying crap. The most dangerous President in American History (Obama) is creating government debt faster and bigger than any other President in History. We can't afford to have Obama as president even for the next two years.

[Brotherfease]

@bond519, I agree with your anti-Obama sentiment, but a lot of our fiscal problems are due to G.W Bush, and then GOP controlled congress. He appointed Ben Bernanke. He choose to take out Saddam, even though he had nothing to do with 9/11. He choose to more than double our education budget, and add yet another federal entitlement program or should I say problem. >> I applaud Mr. Pawlenty for making bold proposals here.

[jackg1001]

He says his plan will grow GDP and he will maintain government spending at 18% of GDP. Then he says he will reduce government spending. If GDP grows then under his proposal then he will also grow government if he maintains the 18% level. Pawlenty is another big government Republican we did to get rid of.

[jackg1001]

Budget deficits were created using the 18% of GDP model. How does this solve the debt problem.

[Brotherfease]

@rushlimbang, finished how?