MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) - "Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Monday accused Democrats of favoring a controlling "nanny government" as he continued his bashing of the rival party.
The former New York mayor, opening a two-day campaign trip in the first primary state, also claimed that Democrats would raise taxes between 20 percent to 30 percent. He offered no specifics to back up those figures.
"Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster," Giuliani said. "It looks like they're going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent. John Edwards just said he's going to raise the capital gains tax double that. Last time we did that, we lost 40 percent in revenue. The last time we did what John Edwards is discussing, the United States lost revenue by basically discouraging people from making investments."
Edwards has proposed raising capital gains taxes for the wealthy while creating tax breaks for the middle class.
Last week, Giuliani called the Democrats the "party of losers" and singled out Edwards and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for criticism on economics and foreign policy.
Giuliani argued that he favors less government and lower taxes.
"That's what makes America great, not this nanny government that Democrats want to give us, where government controls your entire life," he said."
It isn't as if we'd disagree with Rudy on any of the above, but his stance on abortion and gun control makes him an uber-nanny as well. Can't control your own reproductive system, hells no. Time for the government to step in. Can't be trusted with guns, hells no. Time for the yadda yadda. Like most liberals, Rudy sees "rights" where there ARE none, while paying scant attention to legitimate ones, and sure, he'd be better than Rodham but so would just about anyone capable of spelling CAT without being spotted the C and the T.
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