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In reply to the discussion: This Susan Rice thing is really starting to piss me off. [View all]chowder66
(9,067 posts)He is also a big pusher/backer of marketing pyramid schemes and signed a bill deregulating them in Utah.
http://www.jon2012.com/jon-email/TimeToCompete.pdf
To start, Jon Huntsmans proposal calls for Congress to repeal both the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank, since universal health-care coverage and a regulated financial sector arent priorities for the Huntsman administration. Huntsman would then push for a dramatic reduction in the power and authority of the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Labor Relations Board, in order to curb the excesses of federal regulation.
Huntsman doesnt say anything about Medicaid spending, Medicare cost control, or the Social Security shortfall, but given his commitment to extending the Bush tax cuts and lowering taxes on the wealthy, its not unreasonable to think that he supports some variation on the Paul Ryan plan, which slashes entitlements and social spending and funnels the savings toward tax cuts for the wealthy.
Indeed, as ThinkProgress found, Huntsmans tax policies would raise taxes on poor and working-class Americans, including seniors. To achieve the revenue necessary to offset his tax cuts, Huntsman would have to eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit and tax any income from veterans' pensions, disability benefits, and Social Security payments.
http://prospect.org/article/seriously-jon-huntsman-not-moderate