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Tim Pawlenty Blasts President Obama On Economy, ‘Class Warfare’

06/07/2011 12:43 pm 0 comments

Source: Jackie Kucinich / USA Today

Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty took aim at President Obama today, calling the Democrat he wants to defeat a “major practitioner of class warfare.”

The former Minnesota governor outlined what he’s calling a “Better Deal” in a major economic speech at the University of Chicago, right in Obama’s adopted hometown.

Pawlenty proposed:

A “simpler, fairer and flatter tax system” with two individual rates, at 10% and 25%. He’s also calling for the business tax rate to be cut from 35% to 15% and wants to eliminate special-interest tax breaks and subsidies.
A “Google test” for cutting federal spending. If goods or services can be found through the Internet, Pawlenty says, then “the federal government probably doesn’t need to be doing it.”
“Sunsetting” all government regulations unless Congress votes to keep them.

To read this article in its entirety visit the USA Today.

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