Jeb Bush Calls for an End to Energy Subsidies

[yuiyoshida]

Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida has called for something that his brother George W., the former president and oilman, might disagree with: a ban on energy subsidies.

At an event in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Mr. Bush was captured on video saying that the United States should phase out tax credits that subsidize the wind, solar, oil and gas industries and allow market forces to lower the cost of energy.

“I don’t think we should pick winners and losers,” Mr. Bush said. “I think tax reform ought to be to lower the rates as far as you can and eliminate as many of these subsidies — all of the things that impede the ability for a more dynamic way to get where we need to get.”

Energy subsidies have divided Republicans who try to balance their free-market tendencies with the need to please big corporate constituents. Democrats have called for an end to tax breaks for “big oil” but have been more supportive of younger renewable energy groups.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/23/jeb-bush-calls-for-an-end-to-energy-subsidies/?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

[arcane1]

1. Leave it to him to lump them all together, as if they are all equal.

[dhill926]

2. first thing I thought as well...

freakin' jerk...

[Uncle Joe]

3. The moral of this story is, NEVER LET JEB BUSH GIVE YOUR BABY A BATH,

or you will come home to find both; baby and bath water tossed out on the lawn.

Thanks for the thread, yuiyoshida.

[hifiguy]

4. Dumber than a sack of hammers.

Even dumber than his idiot brother.

Ol Barb must have drank like a goddamn fish when she was pregnant with these morons; there has to be some explanation. GHW was a sneaking, lying, scheming, completely crooked and utterly amoral shitweasel of the highest degree but no one ever said he was dumb.

[spanone]

5. how long have we been hearing this same drivel....?

piss off bu$h