Fake Out Alert: GOP Senate candidate Joe Kyrillos open to tax hikes
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Kyrillos said he would not sign the anti-tax pledge promoted by the group Americans for Tax Reform, as has every Republican New Jersey House incumbent and the past two candidates for Senate. Overall, 238 House members and 41 senators, nearly all of them Republicans, have signed the pledge.
“I want to do things differently than we’ve done,” Kyrillos said.
“People can put out budget blueprints, they can put out a jobs plan, but what we’re really having is a big conversation and the hard work of fixing the economy and dealing with the structural budget challenges of the nation are going to be left to the next Congress and the next president, and I want to be part of it,” Kyrillos said.
Kyrillos was vague about what taxes he’d support, other than increases for hedge fund managers. His record in Trenton includes voting against several bills to raise state income taxes on wealthier people, and he opposes a measure Menendez supported that would let tax cuts for top brackets expire in January as scheduled.
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I'm of the opinion that Republicans will say anything to get elected and do whatever "the boss(es)" of the republican party tell them once they're in office.
I don't care that Kyrillos says he won't sign Grover's "No Tax Pledge". Don't you notice that HQ isn't scrambling to find another republican to replace him? HQ hasn't pulled back its financing of his campaign? That's because IMO they expect him to try to look like a moderate in a blue state. What are we going to do if he's one of two Senators and he's voting to end Medicare? Are we going to recall him for false advertising?