That video was unedited, but in that video you couldn’t hear what was said. The fairtaxers though put out this video to the media and posted it on YouTube as proof of Fred Thompson’s ‘pledge’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSoLzWBxMdc
A good edit job, but the scene where you can hear the question clearly, was re-taped and spliced in.
Not the same tape as on ICaught’s website.
You have your opinion, and I have mine.
Here is another audio clip where Fred Thompson laments the existence of the income tax system saying “lowering the rates always to me is a good thing, but they can always be raised again”. He doesn’t endorse the fairtax, but now he endorses the continued existence of the same income tax system that allows rates to be raised (again)?
http://easylink.playstream.com/fairtax/FredThompsonOnFT-070710.wax