Rick Perry's info.
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moreluck
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Does Obama even have the 'smarts' to make it through flight school?????????????
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/31/could-obama-have-made-it-as-top-gun/
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/31/could-obama-have-made-it-as-top-gun/
wkmac
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For someone like Rick Perry to proclaim he's so anti-gov't to the tea party crowd, he sure does hire a lot of gov't types to run his campaign. I would have expected someone like him to fill these type positions from the private sector.
I'm not convinced Perry is as anti-gov't as his campaign propaganda likes to portray.
[video=youtube;ZrddWWcvNU8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrddWWcvNU8[/video]
I'm not convinced Perry is as anti-gov't as his campaign propaganda likes to portray.
[video=youtube;ZrddWWcvNU8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrddWWcvNU8[/video]
moreluck
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moreluck
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My Tax and Spending Reform Plan
by Rick Perry
The folks in Washington might not like to hear it, but the plain truth is the U.S. government spends too much. Taxes are too high, too complex, and too riddled with special interest loopholes. And our expensive entitlement system is unsustainable in the long run.
Without significant change quickly, our nation will go the way of some in Europe: mired in debt and unable to pay our bills. President Obama and many in Washington seem unable or unwilling to tackle these issues, either out of fear of alienating the left or because they want Americans to be dependent on big government.
On Tuesday I will announce my “Cut, Balance and Grow” plan to scrap the current tax code, lower and simplify tax rates, cut spending and balance the federal budget, reform entitlements, and grow jobs and economic opportunity.
The plan starts with giving Americans a choice between a new, flat tax rate of 20% or their current income tax rate. The new flat tax preserves mortgage interest, charitable and state and local tax exemptions for families earning less than $500,000 annually, and it increases the standard deduction to $12,500 for individuals and dependents.
This simple 20% flat tax will allow Americans to file their taxes on a postcard, saving up to $483 billion in compliance costs. By eliminating the dozens of carve-outs that make the current code so incomprehensible, we will renew incentives for entrepreneurial risk-taking and investment that creates jobs, inspires Americans to work hard and forms the foundation of a strong economy. My plan also abolishes the death tax once and for all, providing needed certainty to American family farms and small businesses.
My plan restores American competitiveness in the global marketplace and provides strong incentives for U.S.-based employers to build new factories and create thousands of jobs here at home.
First, we will lower the corporate tax rate to 20% — dropping it from the second highest in the developed world to a rate on par with our global competitors. Second, we will encourage the swift repatriation of some of the $1.4 trillion estimated to be parked overseas by temporarily lowering the rate to 5.25%. And third, we will transition to a “territorial tax system” — as seen in Hong Kong and France, for example — that only taxes in-country income.
The mind-boggling complexity of the current tax code helps large corporations with lawyers and accountants devise the best tax-avoidance strategies money can buy. That is why Cut, Balance and Grow also phases out corporate loopholes and special-interest tax breaks to provide a level playing field for employers of all sizes.
To help older Americans, we will eliminate the tax on Social Security benefits, boosting the incomes of 17 million current beneficiaries who see their benefits taxed if they continue to work and earn income in addition to Social Security earnings.
We will eliminate the tax on qualified dividends and long-term capital gains to free up the billions of dollars Americans are sitting on to avoid taxes on the gain.
All of these tax cuts will be meaningless if we do not control federal spending. Last year the government spent $1.3 trillion more than it collected, and total federal debt now approaches $15 trillion. By the end of 2011, the Office of Management and Budget expects the gross amount of federal debt to exceed the size of America’s entire economy for the first time in over 65 years.
Under my plan, we will establish a clear goal of balancing the budget by 2020. It will be an extremely difficult task exacerbated by the current economic crisis and our need for significant tax cuts to spur growth. But that growth is what will get us to balance, if we are willing to make the hard decisions of cutting.
We should start moving toward fiscal responsibility by capping federal spending at 18% of our gross domestic product, banning earmarks and future bailouts, and passing a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. My plan freezes federal civilian hiring and salaries until the budget is balanced. And to fix the regulatory excess of the Obama administration and its predecessors, my plan puts an immediate moratorium on pending federal regulations and provides a full audit of all regulations passed since 2008 to determine their need, impact and effect on job creation.
ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank and Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley must be quickly repealed and, if necessary, replaced by market-oriented, common-sense measures.
America must also once and for all face up to entitlement reform. To preserve benefits for current and near-term Social Security beneficiaries, my plan permanently stops politicians from raiding the program’s trust fund. Congressional IOUs are no substitute for workers’ Social Security payments. We should use the federal Highway Trust Fund as a model for protecting the integrity of a pay-as-you-go system.
Cut, Balance and Grow also gives younger workers the option to own their Social Security contributions through personal retirement accounts that Washington politicians can never raid. Because young workers will own their contributions, they will be free to seek a market rate of return if they choose, and to leave their retirement savings to their dependents when they die.
Fixing America’s tax, spending and entitlement cultures will not be easy. But the status quo of byzantine taxes, loose spending and the perpetual delay of entitlement reform is a recipe for disaster.
Cut, Balance and Grow strikes a major blow against the Washington-knows-best mindset. It takes money from spendthrift bureaucrats and returns it to families. It puts fewer job-killing regulations on employers and more restrictions on politicians. It gives more freedom to Americans to control their own destiny. And just as importantly, the Cut, Balance and Grow plan paves the way for the job creation, balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility we need to get America working again.
Mr. Perry, a Republican, is the governor of Texas and a candidate for president.
by Rick Perry
The folks in Washington might not like to hear it, but the plain truth is the U.S. government spends too much. Taxes are too high, too complex, and too riddled with special interest loopholes. And our expensive entitlement system is unsustainable in the long run.
Without significant change quickly, our nation will go the way of some in Europe: mired in debt and unable to pay our bills. President Obama and many in Washington seem unable or unwilling to tackle these issues, either out of fear of alienating the left or because they want Americans to be dependent on big government.
On Tuesday I will announce my “Cut, Balance and Grow” plan to scrap the current tax code, lower and simplify tax rates, cut spending and balance the federal budget, reform entitlements, and grow jobs and economic opportunity.
The plan starts with giving Americans a choice between a new, flat tax rate of 20% or their current income tax rate. The new flat tax preserves mortgage interest, charitable and state and local tax exemptions for families earning less than $500,000 annually, and it increases the standard deduction to $12,500 for individuals and dependents.
This simple 20% flat tax will allow Americans to file their taxes on a postcard, saving up to $483 billion in compliance costs. By eliminating the dozens of carve-outs that make the current code so incomprehensible, we will renew incentives for entrepreneurial risk-taking and investment that creates jobs, inspires Americans to work hard and forms the foundation of a strong economy. My plan also abolishes the death tax once and for all, providing needed certainty to American family farms and small businesses.
My plan restores American competitiveness in the global marketplace and provides strong incentives for U.S.-based employers to build new factories and create thousands of jobs here at home.
First, we will lower the corporate tax rate to 20% — dropping it from the second highest in the developed world to a rate on par with our global competitors. Second, we will encourage the swift repatriation of some of the $1.4 trillion estimated to be parked overseas by temporarily lowering the rate to 5.25%. And third, we will transition to a “territorial tax system” — as seen in Hong Kong and France, for example — that only taxes in-country income.
The mind-boggling complexity of the current tax code helps large corporations with lawyers and accountants devise the best tax-avoidance strategies money can buy. That is why Cut, Balance and Grow also phases out corporate loopholes and special-interest tax breaks to provide a level playing field for employers of all sizes.
To help older Americans, we will eliminate the tax on Social Security benefits, boosting the incomes of 17 million current beneficiaries who see their benefits taxed if they continue to work and earn income in addition to Social Security earnings.
We will eliminate the tax on qualified dividends and long-term capital gains to free up the billions of dollars Americans are sitting on to avoid taxes on the gain.
All of these tax cuts will be meaningless if we do not control federal spending. Last year the government spent $1.3 trillion more than it collected, and total federal debt now approaches $15 trillion. By the end of 2011, the Office of Management and Budget expects the gross amount of federal debt to exceed the size of America’s entire economy for the first time in over 65 years.
Under my plan, we will establish a clear goal of balancing the budget by 2020. It will be an extremely difficult task exacerbated by the current economic crisis and our need for significant tax cuts to spur growth. But that growth is what will get us to balance, if we are willing to make the hard decisions of cutting.
We should start moving toward fiscal responsibility by capping federal spending at 18% of our gross domestic product, banning earmarks and future bailouts, and passing a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. My plan freezes federal civilian hiring and salaries until the budget is balanced. And to fix the regulatory excess of the Obama administration and its predecessors, my plan puts an immediate moratorium on pending federal regulations and provides a full audit of all regulations passed since 2008 to determine their need, impact and effect on job creation.
ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank and Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley must be quickly repealed and, if necessary, replaced by market-oriented, common-sense measures.
America must also once and for all face up to entitlement reform. To preserve benefits for current and near-term Social Security beneficiaries, my plan permanently stops politicians from raiding the program’s trust fund. Congressional IOUs are no substitute for workers’ Social Security payments. We should use the federal Highway Trust Fund as a model for protecting the integrity of a pay-as-you-go system.
Cut, Balance and Grow also gives younger workers the option to own their Social Security contributions through personal retirement accounts that Washington politicians can never raid. Because young workers will own their contributions, they will be free to seek a market rate of return if they choose, and to leave their retirement savings to their dependents when they die.
Fixing America’s tax, spending and entitlement cultures will not be easy. But the status quo of byzantine taxes, loose spending and the perpetual delay of entitlement reform is a recipe for disaster.
Cut, Balance and Grow strikes a major blow against the Washington-knows-best mindset. It takes money from spendthrift bureaucrats and returns it to families. It puts fewer job-killing regulations on employers and more restrictions on politicians. It gives more freedom to Americans to control their own destiny. And just as importantly, the Cut, Balance and Grow plan paves the way for the job creation, balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility we need to get America working again.
Mr. Perry, a Republican, is the governor of Texas and a candidate for president.
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https://web.archive.org/web/2012010...oads/2011/10/Cut-Balance-and-Grow-Summary.pdf
Rick Perry economics plan
Rick Perry economics plan
That's actually pretty interesting, the fact that it's more complicated than 9-9-9 and retains some fairly significant deductions is at least a recognition that a one size fits all flat tax is inherently regressive. Give it a week or so til we see some independent scoring.
trplnkl
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Nor am I.
Perry used to be a democrat until he figured out a republican has a better chance of becoming governor in Texas. That's not to say we have never had democrat governors, we have but not the usual.
moreluck
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There was talk of gay lover back in 2008.....only it was with Obama.
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trplnkl
555
You're as bad a another poster on here that loves to make allegations with no proof of anything.
Too bad your wrong. I wish I could live in denial like you trip. Perry is doomed. Another cowboy puppet with mush for brains. Id like to see what kind of person PERRY speaks for.
Just today, PERRY announced he will miss some upcoming debates. Seems his staff knows hes too stupid to stand there and speak so hes being yanked from the national stage.
What a coward.
Peace.
wkmac
Well-Known Member
At some level, I actually agree with Perry about these debates. Just because someone "wins" a debate doesn't translate into a good leader or in this case a good President. These debates IMO in their structure are just opportunities for 30 sec. soundbites and a chance for candidates to catch another in a gotcha moment. It's like watching Jackass waiting for the guy to crash his nuts on a stair rail doing something we all know is stupid. Sad that America is not bright enough to have it's intelligence insulted by this nonsense but then Bernays and Lippmann made a nice career and industry knowing and manipulating this.
In no way do these debates allow for deep policy discussions and analysis of what a candidate would do once elected. Historically, what voters are told in campaigns and what actually happens after election are vastly different. I don't watch debates because I find them on the same mindless order as something like American Idol for politics. Besides, the debates are truly only of value for those putting them on as a means to be relevant in a supposed national conversation.
In no way do these debates allow for deep policy discussions and analysis of what a candidate would do once elected. Historically, what voters are told in campaigns and what actually happens after election are vastly different. I don't watch debates because I find them on the same mindless order as something like American Idol for politics. Besides, the debates are truly only of value for those putting them on as a means to be relevant in a supposed national conversation.
moreluck
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Also, when not moderated well, the mod lets the bickering go hoping to make them look ridiculous.....no Anderson, you looked ridiculous for losing control!
moreluck
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You remind me of that one little kid in Kindergarten Cop.....the one with everybody's gonna die, they have a too-mer or they're DOOMED!!
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trplnkl
555
LOL, nice try. Can MrFedEx prove Perry is gay? Can you prove Perry's staffers pulled him for any debates?
I'm guessing the answer is NO...No ......and NO .....
The truth is out on you pal....you regurgitate stuff with no proof and when asked for it you run and hide. again and again and again
Thats all you C9 have to offer. Just repeat the same thing until it becomes true to you.
The GOP field is a joke, the country thinks its a joke, and after every debate, the GOP proves its a joke.
The real problem is, the jokes on YOU.
Peace.
