We will be seeing The Perry Plan, Perry’s flat tax proposal, economic plan, and entitlement reform package this Tuesday, October 25, but I thought you might like to see what another grassroots individual is saying about Perry’s flat tax plan.
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A leading Tea Party ally believes Rick Perry’s call for a flat tax could be a boon to the GOP presidential candidate.
Dick Armey was a key proponent of the flat tax when he was House majority leader in the mid-1990s. Today, he is chairman of FreedomWorks, a grassroots group closely aligned with the small-government Tea Party movement.
Armey said in an interview that he’s anxious to see Perry’s tax-plan details, which the Texas governor will unveil in a speech Tuesday, Oct. 25 in South Carolina.
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“I want to make the tax code so simple that even Timothy Geithner can file his taxes on time,” said Perry, joking about the Treasury secretary, who didn’t pay his taxes in full when he was at the International Monetary Fund.
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The flat tax also is a central component of magazine publisher Steve Forbes’ 1996 presidential campaign. Forbes is on the board of the FreedomWorks foundation.
“I always said we would pass this into law when America beats Washington, when the grassroots activists and the general interests beat the special interests,” Armey said in the interview. “The majority in the House today is a conservative majority, it’s not a Republican majority.”
Armey, an economics professor by training, said he’d be happy to consult with Perry on the flat tax. But he pointed to his 1996 book on the flat tax as a guide for Perry on how to counter critics of his upcoming plan.
“An awful lot of people make a living from tax complexities and they don’t want that to end,” Armey said.
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.