Last Night's GOP Debate on Fox Business Channel | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I don't expect Cruz and Rubio to do anything on immigration, as they have a right-wing base, Cuban and non-Cuban. What I would like to see is their justification for continuing matter of right Cuban residency while everyone else has to wait in line. Now that we have normalized relations, the special residency on arrival no longer makes sense. As for Kasich and Bush and their second class citizenship, lets remember that American Samoans are American Nationals who cannot vote for President, even if they come to the mainland, until they are naturalized.
On taxes, Paul is wrong and Rubio is right, however the topic is not childcare but the Child Tax Credit, which is a subsidy that is refundable over three kids. My preference would be to expand it even more than Rubio wants and distribute it through employers with payroll, rather than through tax refunds.
ISIL is just al Queda in Iraq with a new flag, made possible not by any Obama screw-up but because a Google Billionaire from Egypt thought he could do a velvet revolution via Facebook. The unrest spread and showed that jihadis are better funded and organized. Funny how no Republican mentions the role of the Saudi kingdom in this. We need a regional solution. Where is Wes Clark when we need him?
Ron Paul has the standard libertarian tax plan, but he knows it. Ben Carson cribbed his from Dick Armey and the Tea Party. One wonders whether he will also include repealing withholding so paying taxes is more painful.
As for the horse race, its still too early and because Kasich is probably the sane one, I don't see him going anywhere. This is all about pleasing billionaire funders, so Trump stays in with his own billions and everyone else has to look passable, until we start caucusing and voting.
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