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Maybe I can make it simple for everyone who cares to answer the question.

First of all, you asked a question about a text of the recent Tea Party Speech

find it here ...
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2011/09/sarah-palin-iowa-speech-transcript-video-sarah-palin-tea-party-of-america-speech-indianola-iowa/

the pullout quote, according to the enthused blogger, is this:

So, do you want to know why the permanent political class doesn’t really want to cut any spending? Do you want to know why nothing ever really gets done? It’s because there’s nothing in it for them. They’ve got a lot of mouths to feed – a lot of corporate lobbyists and a lot of special interests that are counting on them to keep the good times and the money rolling along. ~ Sarah Palin

And since the so-called “experts” on Free Republic are apparently too arrogant, too star-struck, or too ignorant to answer a question that CGGMA posted, there is a solution that is specific — and vague — at the same time

from the speech, part 1 of Palin’s solutions

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Palin, in part:
to make America the most attractive and competitive place to do business, to set up shop here and hire people here, to attract capital from all over the globe that will lead to an explosion of growth, instead of chasing industry offshore, I propose to eliminate all federal corporate income tax. And hear me out on this. This is how we create millions of high-paying jobs. This is how we increase opportunity and prosperity for all.
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so that was precise. But do we do away with crony capitalism by cutting taxes? I’m for cutting taxes, but it appears she has proposed a solution to a different problem, not one she raised.

Here, however, is a solution — but it is vague.

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Palin, in part
To balance out any loss of federal revenue from this tax cut, we eliminate corporate welfare and all the loopholes and we eliminate bailouts. This is how we break the back of crony capitalism because it feeds off corporate welfare, which is just socialism for the very rich. We can change all of that. The message then to job-creating corporations is: We’ll unshackle you from the world’s highest federal corporate income tax rate, but you will stand or fall on your own, just like all the rest of us out on main street.
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“Ending corporate welfare” has been a tired bromide, a shopworn cliche, that numerous politicians have trotted out, year after year, decade after decade.

Gov. Palin offered very little by way of specifics. But she did propose the elimination of corporate income taxes. And that is a great idea — although hardly a new one.

In mid-August, Gov. Perry proposed:
Texas Governor Rick Perry went on record today saying that a 35% tax rate on corporations is too high, and that we should lower it to zero percent in order to get them to start creating jobs.

But Palin’s identification of the Shelob at the center of the web is, at least, a start.

See, Sarah acolytes? See how easy it is when you take a quick break from burning incense and bowing at altars and casting runes and fattening up cows?

It truly wuly wasn’t that hard to answer the legitimate questions of more than a few who ask: What are Gov. Palin’s solutions?

I found one! All by myself! Si se puede !

-George