Posted on 10/19/2011 7:22:00 PM PDT by Clairity
Rick Perry's embrace of a flat tax makes the tough-talking Texas governor the unlikely political heir to Steve Forbes, the nerdy publisher and erstwhile presidential candidate.
Mr. Forbes, who ran in 1996 and 2000 and now is advising the Perry camp, said that the "concept remains the same" as his own flat tax plan from the 1990s.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
I understand they are different but they are not that different. Perry is trying to so-opt this position since it worked so well for Cain. It’s obvious what he is trying to do here.
Maybe you should read the article and learn something, or at read the excerpt posted:
“Mr. Forbes, who ran in 1996 and 2000 and now is advising the Perry camp, said that the “concept remains the same” as his own flat tax plan from the 1990s.”
Perry is scary...free tuition for illegals and he backed Al Gore...has he really done a 380?
So you’re okay with Perry entering the race unprepared? It would certainly explain a lot about Perry.
I have learned something. Perry is a fraud. An establishment republican/life long politician in a conservatives clothes if you will.
A flat income tax is better than 9 9 9 because 9 9 9 gives Democrat lib/commies/socialists a new toy, a national sales tax to jack up the way they do in Europe with the VAT tax
Perry’s comng back, lookout Mitt!
He hasn't even come out with the plan yet. How about not jumping to conclusions. Patience is a virtue :-)
You are absolutely correct. In addition these are not “real” debates.
I wonder if we will have to wait a few days after the next debate for Perry to release his next stolen plan.
We had to wait for his energy plan which he basically ripped outta Sarah’s playbook.
And then we had to wait til after this debate for him to bastardize Cain’s tax plan and call it his own.
This guy has no shame.
No the problem was that 9-9-9 was a hastily thrown together plan that Cain never even could defend or explain himself. This is a long primary.’spring is when we get out candidate not Oct. Because a salesman throws out a bad tax plan and nothing else. This is not just a personality contest.
You people are delusional.
Any tax can be altered to suit the party in charge. If this flat tax “idea” of Perry’s and I use the word idea very loosely here since he is trying to take credit for someone elses idea. We are going to likely get a flat tax around 18% or more on income. When the dems want to raise it they will with little fanfare.
Cains tax plan is not a VAT and will never be a VAT.
VATs are cumulative. Cains 9-9-9 is not a cumulative tax.
Perry did not steal Cain’s plan. That is lame. If Perry stole Cain’s plan then Cain stole Forbes’s plan and Forbes is advising Perry
No matter what the facts are, no matter how many times it's been said, some people just refuse to acknowledge the truth that in-state tuition for illegals is not FREE tuition. But then they'd have to use something else to bash Perry with. You're not convincing anybody and are wasting our time and yours.
Why not pick one of the legitimate bashing points. Every one of the candidates have some.
The European VAT is close enough to a national sales tax. No way do I want either in the IRS Federales tool kit
And with all the state sales taxes....you add a Federale sales tax making sales taxes 15-20% and you will have widespread cheating. You will have to hire tens of thousands of new IRS Federales to enforce it
State sales taxes are widely cheated on and states have a hundred’s of thousands of tax agents trying to collect them
Your missing the point. Perry is trying to morph now and use Cains premise for tax reform to get votes.
Perry’s campaign is in shambles and he is doing what any establishment politician would do - morph into something else that might work for him. His internal polling probably shows that in general Cains tax plan is a huge success among tea party and conservative members.
Fortunately for us and the REAL conservatives of this country see through what Perry is trying to do and see him for the fraud he really is.
“The European VAT is close enough to a national sales tax.”
That is bull crap and is an out right falsehood.
“Mr. Forbes’s plan was attacked by other Republican candidates.”
I don’t remember it that way. I remember Forbes was just an incredibly uncharismatic guy and while he’d hoped to get traction with that issue, got none.
Thanks for this post. Little kernels from the past are often found in these articles, for example:
” - - - Mr. Romney has previously been critical of a flat-tax system, including in newspaper advertisements he took out in 1996 as a “concerned citizen” in which he argued that the Forbes tax plan was a “tax cut for fat cats.”
Willy-Rom-Rom-RINO, you haven’t fooled us a bit. It is however, nice to have your thoughts recorded on your opinion of the pursuit of achieving financial independence in America.
BTW, aren’t you a “Fat Cat” now? Does this mean that you do not like yourself, or just the American Dream of financial independence?
Any new tax system must require contribution from all, even if it is miniscule.
Quoting the real One, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
It is imperative that all Americans feel invested in the government and ownership of its actions. Otherwise, as now, those who do not contribute will just demand more and more from those who do.
It’s a whole ‘nuther ballgame when government is spending YOUR money and when more programs mean more from you.
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