Eric W. Dolan
Raw Story
Aug 24, 2011
Rick Perry’s campaign has tried to distance itself from Perry’s 9-month-old book Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington for the second time since last week.
In response to a query by The Washington Post, spokesman Mark Miner distanced Perry from his book’s proposal to repeal the 16th Amendment or replace the current tax code with a flat tax.
“The 16th Amendment instituting a federal income tax starting at one percent has exploded into onerous, complex and confusing tax rates and rules for American workers over the last century… We can’t undo more than 70 years of progressive taxation and worsening debt obligations overnight,” he said in an email.
In the book, the Texas governor also blasted the expansion of the federal government and criticized programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. He attacked social welfare programs as “fraudulent systems designed to take in a lot of money at the front and pay out none in the end.”
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He broke the first rule…. Don’t put it in WRITING.
So he is a TWO FACED LIAR isn’t that a prerequisite for a politician anyway.
Only RON PAUL has stayed true to his principals.
Anyone who does not vote for RP is obviously choosing a SCUMBAG and deserves everything they get.
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August 24th, 2011 at 6:09 am
i agree totaly