Posted on 10/18/2011 4:37:49 PM PDT by kristinn
Broadcast on: CNN
Broadcast time: 8pm EDT/5pm PDT
The Candidates:
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann is serving her 3rd full term in the U.S. House. Founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, worked as a tax attorney, and was a foster mother for 23 teenagers. She is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Herman Cain
Cain is the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He lost the Georgia Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004. He was recently the host of Atlanta-based radio show.
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican member from 1979 to 1999. He has a PhD in modern European history.
Ron Paul
Paul is serving his 11th full term in the U.S. House. He’s an ob-gyn and was Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008
Rick Perry
Perry is the three term governor of Texas, from 2000 to current. He is a retired Air Force captain for former farmer. He has a degree in animal science.
Mitt Romney
Romney was governor of Massachusetts (2003 to 2007) and former CEO of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican 2008 nomination for president. He has an MBA (Harvard) and JD (Harvard Law).
Rick Santorum
Santorum served two terms in the U.S. House and two terms in the U.S. Senate. He became the Senate's third-ranking Republican in 2001. He was defeated for reelection in 2006.
I saw three conservatives in the debate tonight.
Only one is/has:
Successfully turned 450 failing businesses into 450 successes.
Is a Tea Party Member.
Has a strong business background.
Is anti-illegal alien.
Has a plan to create a positive business environment, which will almost immediately create jobs and expand the tax base and will lower the deficit and is “cost-neutral”
Has a degree in Math, Physics, and Computer Science.
Is a self-made millionaire.
Will benefit the most number of people in the country, especially those that create value.
Is a true conservative.
That man is Herman Cain.
If you’re confused by his 9-9-9 plan, or think it will cost you more than you are paying now, then you are not factoring in the benefits of a much lower corporate tax rate.
And no, SS benefits will not be taxed.
Yes, some people on fixed incomes or on low incomes will have to pay a sales tax, just like I do of 9% in California, but overall, they will benefit in the long run.
Or do we want another RINO that will do more of the same?
Desperate times call for radical solutions.
9-9-9 is a start, and may eventually even go down, not up once the public starts to see the benefits of the plan.
On a side note, some of the candidates acted like children.
No wonder DNCNN made the comment about Obama being the real winner tonight.
As I have said before I do not like Romney because of his record. However, I do not TRUST him because of his religion. Been there done that and I know too much about it.
You need to update your news about Newt...he changed his position as soon as the bogus science was revealed as with many others.
The Pentagon just finished a threat assessment. The next President will be sending troops into Mexico as part of the war on terror. When they do border security will be part of it, that is why we need to elect someone who understands the border, understands the military and is not afraid to us it.
In practice a VAT tax is not repetitive (like a profit tax) but it adds in average 5% over nominal value officially stated due to difference in commercial pricing from one step the next step for each product on all steps. ( a ultra stealth form of taxation)
And as a corollary of everything governments usually promise to reimburse the vat to resellers in about 3 mounts of the sell to a reseller but in practice is often late (they are using the money).
And Cain will render the “race card” useless by the MSM in their criticisms of Obama.
Frpm a new FR thread (check it out):
“Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan would raise taxes on 84 percent of U.S. households, according to an independent analysis released Tuesday, contradicting claims by the Republican presidential candidate that most Americans would see a tax cut. The Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank, says low- and middle-income families would be hit hardest, with households making between $10,000 and $20,000 seeing their taxes increase by nearly 950 percent.”
Heritage, and Newt if he support the concept then, dropped the mandate concept long ago.
What makes me pissy is the way the entire thing is focused on fences.
CNN makes CNN look to us Like reason makes
The podiums look like fences
Cain’s 999 plan, as it is now formulated, will not be supported by senior citizens who live on a fixed income. Seniors worked all their lives, paid into Social Security and have skin in the game...we’re not getting a “free ride.”
Many of us seniors on fixed incomes must use food pantries and use food money to pay for medicine instead. We do not have any more money to pay the current taxes, food, medicine, rent, utilities PLUS Cain’s 9-9-9 tax.
Cain still has time to make adjustments, changes to his 9-9-9 tax plan, if he wants to, that is. If he wants the senior citizens vote, he had best make some tax plan changes, because his plan will kill off senior citizens sooner, rather than later.
They had Steward Varney on Hannity and he said that Cain is the only one with a plan that would improve the economy.
There's been at least five. There was the one where he said it was illegal to take out Anwar al-Awlaki; there was the claim that Perry was insensitive when he painted over the rock with racial slur; and there was his denying that he thought those wanting to audit the Fed were ignorant.
This stuff will come back to bite him, especially since it seems to be a habit.
I do hope you aren’t anxiously waiting for an invitation to associate with us, Mitt-pimp.
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Well, I would love to see her get saved. Might affect her support for Mittens too.
Senior citizens dont pay any taxes now
They wont under 999
Whoaa,that sucked. LoL
The podiums look like fences
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Good we need a fance on the border
Maybe it will give Perry asnd romney an idea
Like I said — my sympathy for people who have been apparently paying a lot less than 9% and are now facing some kind of onerous burden is limited. Yours would be too if you had my paycheck.
999 is fairer than the current structure, no disputes about that. Even taking your 84% figure at face value — if this means 84% now are paying more taxes and realizing the financial hell they’ve been putting the other 16% through, maybe we’ll finally have a serious discussion on cutting spending.
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