You have to consider that retirees aren't earning an income anymore and also have some very high expenses.
Well Perry is killing in the polls. I think Batman Jones was right on this one. The Republicans are really going to go out of their way this year and select a nutjob. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/29/new-cnn-poll-perry-sits-atop-gop-field/
I most sincerely hope that Batman is dead wrong. And to Judo, who said that Perry's rhetoric about Social Security would kill him in the general election, I'll respond that Perry is absolutely shameless about contradicting himself if he thinks a new position, any position, will help him win.
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Bats, your boy Huntsman wants to eliminate all deductions, including, presumably, those for mortgages and charitable giving. -- Huntsman to announce sweeping tax reform Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) will propose sweeping tax reforms Wednesday in a speech outlining his plans on job creation. The GOP presidential candidate will lay out his plans for tax and regulatory reform, energy independence and free trade in a New Hampshire speech that’s being billed as perhaps the last best chance for Huntsman, who stands far behind the GOP front-runners in polls, to establish himself as a serious contender for the nomination. “Meeting our challenges will require serious solutions, but above all, it will require serious leadership — a quality in high demand in our nation’s capital, and among my opponents on the campaign trail,” Huntsman will say, according to excerpts released by his campaign. The centerpiece of the plan is a proposal to reform tax rates. It would eliminate all loopholes, deductions and tax exemptions in exchange for establishing three individual-income brackets, taxed at 8 percent, 14 percent and 23 percent. The Huntsman plan would also eliminate capital-gains and dividend taxes, do away with the Alternative Minimum Tax and reduce the corporate tax rate to 25 percent. The plan precedes two major jobs speeches next week by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) and President Obama. Huntsman’s speech looks to set the stage for both of those announcements, particularly Romney’s, as Huntsman has targeted him in New Hampshire and South Carolina over the course of the campaign. “We need American entrepreneurs not only thinking of products like the iPhone or Segway; we need American workers building those products,” Huntsman will say. “It’s time for ‘Made in America’ to mean something again.”
In my experience, there are two major camps in the TEA Party, pro-Paul and anti-Paul. It is interesting how polarizing a figure he is just in that tiny sliver of Americans, but the debates on TP boards get extremely heated when the topic is Ron Paul.
looks like the Mittster is in trouble. Perry leads Romney in Nevada also http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62561.html
yep! from all sides tea party declare war on Romney For some leaders in the tea party movement, the ongoing skirmish over whether presidential contender Mitt Romney should speak at a Tea Party Express rally in New Hampshire on Monday is anything but an internecine quarrel. It is the opening shot, they say, in an all-out war to make sure the former Massachusetts governor does not win the Republican nomination to challenge President Obama next year.
This is exactly the kind of thing that can puncture Romney's chances if Perry doesn't flame out. On the other hand, if Romney wins the nomination despite this, it will make him a much tougher opponent for Obama.
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Ron Paul got snubbed tonight at the debate. Nevertheless, he seemed like the only candidate who didn't have this look on their face with their lips pressed together like they were keeping the **** from spewing out of their mouth. Ron Paul answered every question sincerely while the other candidates kept spouting marketing slogans to sell their terrible political beliefs.
the format doesn't lend itself to long answers, but what slogans and terrible political beliefs are you referring to?
I love Gingrich's "we're not up here to fight eachother, we're here to defeat Obama"........So he's saying he won't debate the other republicans? That they should all simply agree with each other and let the people on who they think looks the best? This guy should have had such high hopes, he's failing so badly.
