KenH's Ron Paul for President Thread

The Paul campaign has received about $124,000 so far today. If it receives an average of $80,000 per day for the remainder of this year then it will meet its goal of raising $12,000,000 this quarter.

 

Ron Paul Gets Relevant in a Hurry

Ron Paul gets relevant in a hurry
By: Jonathan Martin
November 7, 2007 10:07 AM EST

In the space of 24 hours, Ron Paul achieved the extraordinary feat of raising over $4 million online in 35,000 separate contributions.

And he is still going.

As of Tuesday morning, the Republican congressman from Texas had already tallied $7.25 million for the quarter.

At that pace, he’ll likely outraise or at least be at parity for the time period with most of the GOP field (not including Mitt Romney’s self-funding).

In an interview, Paul’s campaign manager said the campaign would likely use its burgeoning war chest to broaden its ad campaign.

“It’s reasonable to assume we’ll increase our presence on TV,” Lew Moore said.

- rest at http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1768BE6F-3048-5C12-0087AABB173C9303

 

Paul Returns Donations From Stolen Cards

Here's a link to a story about it:

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/08/politics/main3472781.shtml

I moved to the credit card accounting department of the company that I work for about five months ago. It is amazing to me the shenigans that some people are pulling in committing credit card fraud. If these people would put as much effort into legal activity they could earn a bunch of money legitimately.

Kudos to the Ron Paul campaign for doing the right thing so quickly. :thumbs:

 

Television ad #3 by the Paul campaign:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0_ZCEc9bi8

 

Tax Reform Promises Treats, Delivers Tricks

Tax Reform Promises Treats, Delivers Tricks

by Congressman Ron Paul(R-TX)
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Representative Charles Rangel’s recently announced plan to address the impending Alternative Minimum Tax’s application to middle-class Americans demonstrates limited economic understanding.

The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) began in the late 1960's because 155 wealthy taxpayers had become savvy enough with loopholes that they managed to avoid income taxes altogether. Very few Americans avoided taxes completely this way, nonetheless, policy was enacted that now threatens 25 million Americans.

Rangel's plan boasts loudly about repealing the AMT, but under the Democrats’ pay-as-you-go rules, actual tax cuts are not allowed. Congress must replace any tax revenue reduction with an increase somewhere else, and of course, there are no rules preventing tax hikes. Thus, a new 4% surtax on incomes over $150,000 for singles and $200,000 for couples is proposed to "pay for" the estimated lost revenue. This simultaneously raises $36 billion MORE than simply leaving the AMT alone, and creates a huge new marriage penalty tax. It won't be long before $150,000 is an average income, and middle class taxpayers will again face the situation we see coming today from inflation and the AMT. Overall, the Rangel tax plan is estimated to increase taxes by $3.5 trillion over the next 10 years.

With the leadership in Congress calling for this massive tax hike, spending levels promising to absorb all that and then some (thanks to our ambitiously misguided foreign policy), as well as the Federal Reserve's again cheapening the dollar, American taxpayers are wondering where their purchasing power went. We are working harder than ever before, as our standard of living falls.

The founding fathers never saw taxation as a method to direct social behavior or enforce equality. Equality to them was equality under the law, not equality of outcome, or income. It was not the founding fathers' job to manage the economy, or make American businesses competitive. That was up to the free market and American businesses. The founders sought to provide only protection of property and civil liberties such that job creation could happen naturally and peacefully in a stable, prosperous environment. They never sought to take from the rich to give to the poor, or rob Peter to pay Paul. But today, the top 5% of earners in this country pay over half of all income taxes collected, but only bring in a third of the income. One third of Americans pay nothing or receive subsidies from government.

Tax policy should not be based on the premise that government owns you and allows you to keep some arbitrary amount of your labor. Thus, the AMT should be repealed. The estate tax should be repealed. Capital gains taxes should be repealed. The income tax should be repealed. We don’t need to overhaul or adjust tax policy, we need to scrap the whole thing and start over.

But this message is not getting through to the leadership of Congress. Congress has ensnared itself in rules so that the only changes in tax policy allowed are increases, while the administration is obsessed with spending, especially spending us into oblivion by spreading this dead-end war when we should be coming home.

If Washington can only do wrong, then let’s hope for gridlock, until a more sensible Congress is in office. Sometimes a do-nothing Congress is a lot better than the alternative.

- www.house.gov:80/paul/tst/tst2007/tst110407.htm

 

1) Single digits.

2) He doesn't.

 

Q&A With U.S. News & World Report

www.usnews.com/articles/news/2007/11/09/qa-presidential-candidate-ron-paul_print.html

 

Ron Paul on today's "Face the Nation":

Part I: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0C00o6mtwY

Part II: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxoK6UV4l_4

 

Ron Paul breaks into the light as freedom warrior
[SIZE=-1]By David M. Brown
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, November 11, 2007 [/SIZE]

DES MOINES -- It used to be easy to portray Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul as a quixotic champion of a hopeless cause.

But Don Quixote never raised $4.2 million in a single day.

The parody of someone tilting at windmills hardly fits now that Paul is raising serious amounts of campaign cash. He's using it to fortify grassroots efforts in the important early caucus state of Iowa and to buy TV ads in New Hampshire and other key battleground states.

The Green Tree native who garnered just 432,000 votes in 1988, when he ran for president as a Libertarian, has 100,000 volunteers today.

- rest at www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_537394.html

 

The Ron Paul campaign has now received over $8,000,000 in donations - 19 days ahead of the goal of receiving this amount by November 30 on the way to the goal of $12,000,000 for the fourth quarter.

 

Ron Paul Draws Crowd of 5,000 in Philly

Ron Paul Finds Fans in Cradle of Liberty

November 12, 2007 01:15 PM ET

Ron Paul is on a roll. After a record-breaking online fundraising week, the libertarian Republican candidate for the presidency entertained a crowd of 5,000 in the Old City section of Philadelphia on Saturday.

"It certainly looks bigger than a few spammers," the once long-shot candidate told supporters. His campaign has been wildly popular online, but with the good turnout in Philly, it looks as though it's gaining traction outside cyberspace as well.

Surrounded by the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and the National Constitution Center, Paul said he could "feel the energy of the Founders" as he gave a speech touching on topics as diverse as how he would use the executive order to the legalization of marijuana. Paul, known as "Dr. No" in Washington for his unwillingness to vote for anything not expressly delegated to Congress in the Constitution, often cites the Founding Fathers.

Some of his supporters mimicked his rhetoric by carrying "Don't Tread on Me" and "Live Free or Die" flags and wearing tricorn hats. U.S. News's Liz Halloran sat down with the candidate last week to discuss his atypical campaign, foreign policy, and whether Paul, who ran for president on the Libertarian ticket in 1988, feels like a true Republican.

—Nikki Schwab

 

I hope that he is for the legalization of it. I am.