Posted on 10/23/2011 7:22:15 PM PDT by casinva
Please go to the link to see a video interview of Steve Forbes' endorsement of Rick Perry for POTUS and hear a glimpse of what The Perry Plan offers and what that will mean to America.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...
All states are required to allow enrollment of the children of illegal aliens, since Plyler v. Doe
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12010798883027065807&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr
What Alabama has done is pass a law requiring their schools to report which of their students are the children of the 60,000 illegal aliens estimated to live in that State. The Federal court blocked that part of the law.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-court-alabama-detain-illegal-immigrants-14739017
I was reading it and thinking, “Who, me?” LOL!
It’s also your State Rep and unless your Senator is Birdwell, you State Senator.
Actually, Perry received 38% of the Hispanic vote in 2010. And it was because of his strong opposition to sanctuary cities, his support of border security, and his pro-life, pro-family record.
Yes, because Forbes was running on the basis of massive tax reform. His whole candidacy was about the Flat Tax.
Unfortunately, for Steve, not enough conservatives saw the need for junking the tax code at that time.
Guess Cain did, though.
I dunno, this seems to me more like Steve Forbes endorsing Perry’s plan, not the man so much.
Rick Perry will make his comeback. No way is he finished. Mittens had better be worried
I may have missed it, but I haven’t seen any threads actually debating Perry’s plan.
You keep bringing up the fact that Cain was Forbes’ campaign chairman or whatever.
I don’t understand what you are trying to imply by that.
Could you state your take on that and why?
Thanks.
BTW, many of our Hispanic Texas families have been here since Texas was a Republic, and before. Hispanic men - they were called Tejanos or Texians - died defending the Alamo and fighting Santa Anna.
All of which proves that any talk that Cain is a johnny-come-lately, make-it-up-on-the-fly, back-of-the-napkin guy on tax reform nonsense.
Cain has been committed to major tax reform for many years. It’s not surprising his thinking has evolved. Just shows he’s continued to put a lot of thought into it.
I have not seen any threads debating Perry’s plan, but would like to.
I think having both these plans out there is fantastic! And Forbes has made it very clear that he also sees the fact that the GOP is vying for major tax reform as indicating that FINALLY “the nightmare on Main Street may be over!”
But I am way into this thread and not one poster has commented on Perry’s plan yet.
I hope his plan gets debated and compared and contrasted to 999 in a vigorous way. Is no one interested in it? Or am I missing the threads?
To Wild Irish Rogue and McLynnan,
I had sent you a post a little earlier this evening. Just wanted to follow up on something with you now.
Now that some of those guys have moved on, I wanted to let you know I appreciated your comments on this thread. I hope you know I was not simply trying to stop your contributions for I think you would have a lot to contribute on many threads! I was just trying to see if I could keep the outside interference by that group at a minimum and to stay as focused as possible on the flat tax topic by speaking to you two who were not a part of that busy little group and who seemed to more have your heads on your shoulders. I’m kind of thinking some of those other folk may liked to have had something else shadow over and consume the really good news coming out on the conservative reform front here.
I hope the info I provided in that other post was helpful. I find it eye opening when you think that a student even paying just in-state tuition is paying a whole lot from their own family’s pocketbook! It sure isn’t cheap going to college, nor is it easy to get into many colleges even, and when I see things like that list of in-state tuition rates, it really makes me appreciate those who go to college.
Anyway, please know that I was not concerned about your contributions. I was simply hoping we might slow down any possible “illegal posters” we may have had trying to cross the conservative border! LOL
Thanks again, and don’t forget to check out what Governor Perry has to say this Tuesday about this phase of The Perry Plan and his flat tax reform proposal!
It sure is an exciting time in our country’s history to have such bold talk coming from all our conservative candidates!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this what Perry said people were heartless about if they did not support resident tuition for illegals?
I thought this part intersting--
236B JUSTICE POWELL, concurring. I join the opinion of the Court, and write separately to emphasize the unique character of the cases before us. 237*237 The classification in question severely disadvantages children who are the victims of a combination of circumstances. Access from Mexico into this country, across our 2,000-mile border, is readily available and virtually uncontrollable. Illegal aliens are attracted by our employment opportunities, and perhaps by other benefits as well. This is a problem of serious national proportions, as the Attorney General recently has recognized. See ante, at 218-219, n. 17. Perhaps because of the intractability of the problem, Congress — vested by the Constitution with the responsibility of protecting our borders and legislating with respect to aliens — has not provided effective leadership in dealing with this problem.[1] It therefore is certain that illegal aliens will continue 238*238 to enter the United States and, as the record makes clear, an unknown percentage of them will remain here. I agree with the Court that their children should not be left on the streets uneducated.
Nothing has change...only gotten worse.
The one thing Perry’s plan doesn’t appear to do is broaden the tax base.
We’ll see when the details are released, but the overviews so far show that it does nothing to turn takers into tax payers.
While that’s a contention point as to 999 — because it’s accomplished through the NRST, for one thing — it seems to me this is critical to preserving our freedom. As important as economic prosperity is, the tax reform push is not just about that.
You may find this video interesting of Ronald Reagan positively speaking about an open border and a guest worker program with Mexico.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/flashback-ronald-reagan-and-george-bush-debate-illegal-immigration-in-1980/244730/
Could be that. I won't argue that possibility. Mr. Forbes did endorse Perry as a candidate, but I can see where that endorsement could have come because of the flat tax plan Perry wanted to include as a part of his tax-entitlement-economic reform plan and Mr. Forbes' own participation in working with Governor Perry on the tax reform segments of that plan.
If I were Mr. Forbes, and had been as passionate about Flat Tax as he has always been, I would be ecstatic that anyone of prominence would revive that passionate dream and give it a fighting chance once more. That alone might make me want that person to have that chance to make that dream happen.
However, this is what this boils down to to me. If anyone wanted to utilize the knowledge and insight of Steve Forbes, I think that, in and of itself, is a pretty smart thing to do. I've always liked Steve Forbes, and perhaps this is the time in history we can get some kind of reform through, regardless of which reform for better we end up going with.
NO, it seems that the adults have left the room here...LOL
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