Posted on 10/21/2011 10:49:24 AM PDT by Clairity
Herman Cain's case against pundits who claim he's running a book tour rather than a presidential campaign just got a bit more complicated.
Federal Election Commission records show that the former Godfather's Pizza executive paid more than $64,000 of his presidential campaign funds to his motivational speaking company, T.H.E. New Voice Inc., for copies of his own books, and for lodging, airfare, and resources, Bloomberg News reports.
Previous rulings by the FEC have allowed candidates to use their campaign funds to buy their own books, as long as the purchase is at market value and the money goes to charity rather than to personal profit. But Bill Allison, editorial director at the Washington, D.C.-based Sunlight Foundation, told Bloomberg that Cain's case should raise some eyebrows.
"All candidates publish books and they offer them as a premiums to donors, but most candidates aren't buying them from their own companies," Allison said. "It raises the question of his campaign contributions ending up in his own pocket."
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And the supporters have yet to square his outright lie about Gore.
The bottom line there is that Gore was a rabid eco long before Perry supported him as any who care to google his early 80s rants can see. But Perry claimed he was not “Mr. Global Warming” until later.
BS. He has been nuts for years. No the problem. Perry knew that. Anyone remotely familiar with Gore from back then knows all about it. And Perry had to know how simple it is to discover for those who do not.
Yet he lied anyway KNOWING people would discover it.
That speaks to a mindset I want nothing to do with in a leader.
And the same applies to his Guardasil fiasco. It took the legislature to stop him and he went off on them for it. The man is NOT interested in what those he governs think or want.
In your eyes, perhaps. No skin off my nose.
Add the illegal alien love he displays and we have a poor example of a leader. The people of Texas have been scammed for 11 years.
“There’s no way, *no* way that you came from *my* loins. Soon as I get home, first thing I’m gonna do is punch yo mamma in da mouth!”
“Daddy...the top came off!”
I rest my case.
What’s the matter? Too much truth in that picture for you?
“The thing about Cain’s 999, with no payroll taxes, where does it put SS and Medicare?”
He already clarified.
1. no taxing of SS. it’s already been taxed
2. no income tax for the impoverished
done.
“What we’re dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law.”
Junior: My hat blew off, daddy.
Buford T. Justice: I hope your ...damn head was in it.
Point, he has explained nothing as to what people want to know.
With no payroll tax, what happens to SS and Medicare which are now funded with payroll taxes. If no SS or Medicare as now known, what will replace them?
Current SS payments to retirees are based upon how much the individual has paid in. With no one paying in, how will payments, if any, to elderly then be made? How much, if any?
Point, he has explained nothing as to what people want to know.
With no payroll tax, what happens to SS and Medicare which are now funded with payroll taxes. If no SS or Medicare as now known, what will replace them?
Current SS payments to retirees are based upon how much the individual has paid in. With no one paying in, how will payments, if any, to elderly then be made? How much, if any?
Art Laffer did the math and said that Cain’s plan would generate what we’re getting now... more after the economy took off.
The funding of SS and Medicaid has been disingenuous for a long time. It was supposed to belong to *that* person - a separate account.
Well, the democrats blew the lid off that a long time ago.
For years now, the money has been coming out of the general fund.
Cain just stops the subterfuge.
But I trust Art Laffer. If he says that it’ll generate enough money to meet all of our obligations, then it is so.
Don't forget Pissant, King of the Trolls.
I ignored the picture, since it was just chaff you tossed up to avoid dealing with my previous post (you know, the one where you essentially admitted trashing Perry’s book from a position of ignorance).
Some of you Texans are odd ducks.
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