Mike Gravel: Mad As Hell

[Greeby]

Run time: 07:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJX0Uizm1UM   Posted on YouTube: May 21, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 23, 2007 By DU Member: Greeby Views on DU: 1943

 
Mike Gravel talks about his positions on CNN Sunday Spotlight :bounce:

[primative1]

1. Hmmm ...

Thanks

[Vilis Veritas]

2. A breath of fresh...air

No rhetoric. Wow. No spin. Wow.

Interesting guy. I hope he keeps fighting.

[ProfessorPlum]

3. Jesus, could that Rick Sanchez be more of a condescending moron?

How grating, how awful he is. This is the best CNN can bring us? Blecch.

Gravel on the other hand is holding himself well. Funny how the corporations hold new ideas to be "amusing".

[wildbilln864]

13. The asshole said "you're a character" at the end....

what he should have said was you have character!
Damn! He'll get my vote!

K&R!

[bonito]

4. Refreshing ,no bs, he's got my vote.

[primative1]

5. The One Thing About Gravel ...

My support is teetering between the 3 actual anti war candidates at this time ... Gravel, Paul and Kucinich ... any of the three would be fine by me but for the sake of argument lets wheedle down which of the three I should face a firing squad for supporting....
Gravel .... I have this thing about his economics ... I don't really understand his income tax idea but I DO UNDERSTAND the Carbon tax idea and I have seen it explained and have come to conclude that the carbon tax is the most REGRESSIVE tax there could be. Correct me if I am wrong but at this time I am going with the one that is looking at cutting spending as well as doing something with the tax code.
This could be subject to revision so fire away ....

[Ammonium]

7. Similar to VAT

Instead of having to pay an income tax you have a sort of flat tax system so that there is, for example, a 25% tax on anything that is not food. The idea being that the more wealth you have, the more stuff you would be purchasing, and the more in tax you would pay. It's similar to the European VAT tax system.

I don't know that I necessarily like it but the IRS just plain sucks.

[JAbuchan08]

6. National sales tax?

sorry, but my vote just went to Kucinich.

[Sanctified]

8. I am Voting Gravel.

The only two candidates I like are Gravel and Kucinich, unfortunately Kucinich is looking to ban firearms so I will not vote for him.

[ejbr]

9. Before the Dems' capitulation

on the Iraq spending bill, I was not voting for Gravel. Now I will, with others hopefully, in order to send a message to the capitulators: we exist, we vote and we're fed up with your spineless bullshit.

[PDJane]

10. He lost me at the flat tax bit.

I've dealt with flat taxes and, like poll taxes, they hit the poorest first and hardest.

What needs to be done is to fix the taxation system so that it is no longer skewed towards giving the wealthiest more wealth. The so-called "death tax" is, for instance, a fair tax in that you have to have money before it makes a difference. Call it the Paris Hilton tax, and you've got it.

[Bushfire]

11. For me the war is THE most important issue there is, and the war profiteering that goes with it

tax programs like he recommended would never get past a democratically controlled congress, so it's a non issue for me when considering a presidential candidate. He was a progressive leader for the Democrats during Vietnam, and speaks for me now.

[Amonester]

14. In Canada, a percentage of the GST paid by all is returned to the...

poorest (as well as the "less" poor) in the form of a non-taxable (of course) refund check (or Direct-Deposit as an option) every three months. It's been like that for more than a decade now, and I don't hear too much complaints about the program.

For more information on it, do a simple search on, for example, Canada Goods Services Tax (or) Canada GST

[lilypad_567]

12. he is correct

wow, mike gravel and dennis kucinich tell it like it is, but would ron paul tell the truth, he voted agaisnt he iraqi invasion becasue he is nonintervetion, but what is his opinion about the oil industries?

[19jet54]

15. Mike is great!

Tell it like it is, like it was and what it will be!

No holds bar, no BS, no Political Correctness, in your face Truth.

Gotta love him - A true American Patriot & Honest Politician - Very few left?

He adds much value to the Democratic Race - Go Mike!

[cooolandrew]

16. Gravel tells it like it is, to be fair more coherently than Kucinich. Kucinich is good but Gravel..

... is better.

[wildbilln864]

17. Kick.....

again! :hi: