Paul and Conway Agree on Bush Tax Cuts
Talking Points Memo reports:
No matter who Kentuckians elect to the Senate this fall, they're going to get an advocate for extending all the Bush tax cuts -- and not just those for the middle class. In their first (and likely only) nationally-televised debate of the race, Republican nominee Rand Paul and Democratic nominee Jack Conway disagreed on just about everything -- except for extending billions of dollars in tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans at a time when government is struggling to shrink the deficit.
"I think that raising taxes -- we shouldn't be doing it in a time of recession," Conway said. "Listen, in 2002, when I was running for the United States Congress, I was for the Bush tax cuts then. I was one of the few Democrats that was for them and I think now we just ought to extend them."
Paul called Conway's position a flip-flop, but agreed that extending all the cuts was the right thing to do, and promised to offset the additional deficit numbers the tax cuts will create.
"I will immediately introduce bills to reduce spending," Paul said. "I will introduce legislation that will balance the budget."
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