01.18.10 | NRO: Rubio on President Obama’s Bank Tax

National Review Online
Taxing Times
By Marco Rubio
Monday, January 18, 2010

Earlier this week, I spoke out against President Obama’s wrongheaded decision to place an onerous and punitive new tax on the financial institutions Americans rely on to loan them money to buy homes, safeguard their money, and fund their businesses. Since then, I have been subjected to vicious attacks from Democratic party operatives, liberal bloggers, and even some in the media. Tired old stories long ago proven meritless were rehashed with new sinister headlines. Even the bank that gave me a line of credit on my home was dragged into this.

This is life in Obama, Reid, and Pelosi’s America, where not only is free enterprise attacked, but so too is anyone who dares to defend it.

I wear liberal attacks as a badge of honor because ultimately my campaign is not about me, but about giving a voice to the millions of Floridians who are fed up with the policies they see coming out of Washington, just like this bank tax.

No one should be fooled by the spin. President Obama’s bank tax is not about recouping money for the American taxpayer. If President Obama were truly serious about that, he would call on Congress to repeal his failed stimulus program tomorrow so that future generations won’t be saddled with its crippling debt.

President Obama’s bank tax is about finding new ways for the Democrats who control Congress to confiscate more money to pay for their big-government takeover. It won’t recoup money for the taxpayer because taxpayers will ultimately pay for this tax in the form of higher costs of banking, lost jobs, and a freeze of economic activity. This tax is a cynical and intellectually lazy attempt at pitting the American people against American enterprise in the hopes that we will all forget about this president’s and this Congress’s failures in addressing job losses, reckless spending, and soaring debt.

At a time when American job creators are increasingly anxious about the misguided and counterproductive policies being pursued in Washington, the last thing they or our economy need is a new tax. Come what may, I will continue to speak out against it.

Read the column online: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzU0YmE0ZWIyM2Y4ZTUzNjhiZTA4MTZiOWRkYjRiNjc=

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3 Responses to “NRO: Rubio on President Obama’s Bank Tax”

  1. pkake2000 says:
    January 22, 2010 at 6:25 am

    Thanks, I’ll come back again.

  2. Nettie Sue Meadows says:
    January 22, 2010 at 10:37 am

    We should not allow the liberal/democratic attacks to detract us from our message of limited government and the restoration of the U.S. Constitutional principles. Principles that have provided both the moral/ethical and economical standards that allowed our Nation to flourish. Standards founded on principle rather than desires. These time-honored principles of freedom and capitalism have made a Nation unlike any other on this Earth. Instead of allowing the liberal/progressives who do not like this Country and its Constitutional principles to set the agenda for us, we need to put forth these goals, these principles. We need to vote the liberals/progressives our of office and begin to heal our Land.

  3. Joy Duval says:
    February 10, 2010 at 1:23 pm

    Amen to wearing liberal criticism as a badge of honor. This is why we support you and other candidates like you – you know what and who you fight. The more horrible things these people say, the more clear the picture of who they are becomes. All citizens of the United States need to come to know these people we have allowed to control us — control us up to now, that is — no more. We’re going to save our Republic, and you, Mr. Rubio, are a General in our Army.

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