Mike Castle Cuts Taxes ?
Aug 31st, 2010 by Frank Knotts
Okay really ? In Rep. Mike Castle’s (R-De) adds he is telling the people of Delaware that he has, over the years been a champion of lower taxes. He list a few of the bills that he voted for that he says lowered the tax burden on Americans, and says he will continue to do so if elected to the Senate.
Well I won’t dispute the bills that Mr. Castle listed, they are a part of the public record. But I will say that any savings that these votes might have shown, will be offset by, and far surpassed by, the increase tax burden created by a carbon tax.
Mike Castle, as Delaware’s Representative to the U.S. House, voted for cap-and-trade, this too is a part of the public record. Cap and trade would have put a tax on every producer of traditional energy, on every producer of any product produce in the United States, on every product transported across the nation.
Europe has their value added tax or VAT. Mr. Castle and those on the left would like to put into place their own version of the VAT. They would place a tax on carbon output and force the buying of credits. This carbon tax would be passed on to the consumers, it would equate to the highest tax increase on every citizen that this nation has ever known. It would hit the poorest the hardest.
Now of course Mr. Castle took some heat for voting for cap-and-trade, and has since vowed not to vote for cap-and-trade again if elected to the Senate. The problem is, I don’t believe him. He is a life time environmentalist, he has voted for higher CAFE standards which cost Americans thousands of dollars more for their cars. He votes in favor of just about every green issue that comes up for a vote. Now we are being asked to believe that the tiger will change his stripes. Well in my world, a tiger is a tiger, and Mike Castle will vote for carbon taxing, be it called cap-and-trade or any other label that the left decides to put on it. You can take that to the bank, Mike Castle surely will.
Mr. Castle has for a long time been receiving contributions to his campaign from some of the largest banks in the nation. These banks will benefit from a carbon taxing bill, by playing the carbon commodities market. Mr. Castle has also for a very long time been receiving contributions from many large corporate law firms. These firms will benefit from a carbon tax by working for the corporations that would be forced to buy and sell credits.
The real losers in any carbon tax bill will be the tax payers, the average citizens, the people who will pay the higher cost of everything they buy.
Thanks Mr. Castle for those lower taxes. Yeah right !
O’Donnell was just given 15 minutes on Mark Levins show for a second time. Mark gave a personal plea to his listeners to contribute to her campaign.
It’s as easy as ABC- Anybody But Castle.
Frank
You’ve just joined a long list of people that don’t believe a word he says. If you could have been at the Sussex County meeting, when he apologized for voting for the cap and trade bill, you would have seen exactly what a man looks like when he is lying.
After the meeting on the way to his car, I questioned him about his co-sponsorship of Pete King’s (R-NY) HR2159, “The Blacklist Bill,” and he said that he couldn’t recall that bill.
I know it was rude but I actually laughed out loud. “How could you not remember sponsoring that Bill, it was only last year,” I asked. He replied that his car was waiting and he didn’t have any more time.
For anybody not familiar with HR2159, that bill would give the US Attorney General or anybody he appoints locally the power to declare anybody a terrorist and revoke their Second Amendment rights. That means that if you make someone angry or are in an organization that they don’t like, the US Attorney General could come to your house with armed troop to look for weapons without reason or any charges being filed
This is indeed a very dangerous bill.
Last time I checked, there is no carbon tax as cap and trade is dead. Moreover, Castle has made clear (and has made clear for some time) that he no longer supports that bill.
No one (other than maybe Pete DuPont) cut taxes more than Mike Castle did as governor. He does, in fact, have a long history of strong fiscal conservatism. In fact, unlike his opponent in the primary, he has a real record, demonstrated ability and real accomplishments. Moreover, his opponent in the general election has a history of raising taxes (the biggest tax increases in NCC history).
Christine O’Donnell is a flake at best with no chance of winning a general election. Republican control of the Senate is the goal, and, in the absence of any real, credible alternative to Castle, Castle is the candidate, even if you don’t agree with every vote, because I guarantee you you won’t agree with any of Coons’ votes if he were senator.
SF
We’re running on the issues and not on who we think has the best chance to win. Castle had his chance and Frank listed a long list of wrong and very liberal votes that Castle voted yea on.
The list is so long I would wear out my fingers on the keyboard listing them. I’m sure Frank was tired after he listed them.
If Castle can’t win on the issues, we’ll stand with O’Donnell and support her against Castle then Coons.
The trouble with Castle is that he has such a bad record that very few people believe what he says.
Can anyone explain how cap and trade would work, what the goals are? Or is ya’ just plain agin it?
Next time the price of gas goes to $100 dollars a tank and OPEC Iran and Chevez have us by the balls, you can be proud to say you was against all the new energy strategy cappin and a tradin crap. You all gonna show dem dare liberals they ain’t to be messing with energy capping and trading no how no way.
We here buys our gas from foreigners like good American patriotics need to be doin’. I want my imported oil back.
No one (other than maybe Pete DuPont) cut taxes more than Mike Castle did as governor..StosselFan
How does a governor cut taxes?
Think123, the next time would be a lot sooner with cap and tax.
Castle a tax cutter? No way. Castle voted against the $288 billion Obama tax cuts. Case closed.
SF – I wasn’t around when Castle was governor so I don’t give him the benefit of the doubt like you appear to. But he did vote for cap and tax, an obviously horrendous bill.
Why would he have done that? Has he given a credible explanation as to what has changed in his mind? I’ll vote for him in the general, but it seems he needs a significant amount of protest votes in the primary.
Think – the whole premise of your post is false.
SF, you should check the Senate, there is a bill waiting right now, it is called something like “The American Clean Energy Act” but it is cap and trade, plain and simple, and Castle will vote for it if elected to the Senate.. And for those who ask what is cap and trade, look it up. Read the piece I posted, I don’t believe Mike Castle when he says he won’t vote for cap and trade, and I don’t believe he has said that he wouldn’t vote for carbon taxing. This man is nothing but an entrenched encumbent. He cares nothing about the people, only about re-election. This sad line about him being the only Republican who can win is “Castle Spin”, and those who buy into it are sheep.
A governor cuts taxes the same way a governor cuts state employee pay. The governor proposes the budget.
Castle did cut taxes 3 times while governor, and he did have a balanced budget for 8 years. He also voted for the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts.
Okay. You’ve worn me down. All this fun must come to an end and, at long last I can say that Mike Castle must win. You’ve done it. You’ve made me a Castle supporter. Congrats!
The alternative, living in a state in which even a few people who think Christine O’Donnell should hold public office, is too terrible to contemplate.
Thank you EvanQ for further exposing the reality of the O’Donnell knucklehead brigade.
A governor cuts taxes the same way a governor cuts state employee pay. The governor proposes the budget.
In other words, he doesn’t ‘cut’ anything. That is within the purview of the legislative branch.
Kenny J, the governor proposes a budget, and then the two houses come up with their own versions. Then the Joint Finance Committee hammers out one congressional buget. Of coure the party of the governor works very hard to get as much of his budget into the final budget. After all this, it goes back to the governor for their signature. A governor can refuse the budget, but has little to do with what gets in or not.
In other words, ‘he’ didn’t ‘cut’ anything.