the drain. the one man knows why and how he made the decision is the president. would you attempt to call him or subpoena him before the committee? that would be relatively unprecedented, probably not. again,ç we are very concerned that announcement was perhaps more about politics and national security. we need to really look at our long term interests. clearly, the plan you just outlined for troops being stationed elsewhere in the me east is an admission of the danger i m talking about. we should be talking about looking at it carefully. senator david vitter, we will watch and see if that hearing comes to fruition. thank you. thank you. rick perry defending his new flat tax plan and debating skills today. he sat downç for an exclusive interview on fox news sunday
texas governor rig perry jumped into the reform debate. introducing a sweeping plan to overhaul the system an operational flat rate income rate of 20%. fox news paul has perry sliding to fourth place in the republican primary field. can his proposal put him back into the top tier? joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist dan henninger and jason riley and kim strassel. kim, start with you, rick perry offered this proposal that he called bold. do you think it s bold enough? well, it s as good a shot as he s going to have. i mean, he just looked at herman cain and success of herman cain and what s clear from mr. cain s 9-9-9 plan, where the enthusiasm is, he s making a bet that his flat tax is simpler, more concise, easier to explain and he can tap into top of that without
you interviewed governor rick perry. he has been seesawing in the polls. you asked him how he was doing right now. chris: he went from 38% in the polls in august to single digits now both in the national polls and in state polls. i got to say, i thought he did well today. he understands that he did not make a good impression and is trying to do the toughest thing which is to get voters to take another look at him. he now has a plan that he feels passionate about and i can tell you from a 25 minute interview he knows a lot about and that is the modified flat tax. people can keep to the old system or take a 20% flat tax. talking about job growth and spending cuts. the only question you have to ask yourself is why didn t he have all of this when got in the race. he seems to have gotten in first and then thought what am i going to say and do as president.
some of the controversy that s surrounded 9-9-9 and make a go of this after a not very great debate. paul: jason, is this a better plan politically, let s talk about it than cain. a flatter code is preferable to what we have. it will attract more investment and economic growth. in that sense, sure. he s making it operational and trying to get ahead of some of the push back that he s expecting whether to raise enough revenue and that will be the key question here. the critics who are going after it are using these start of static analysis that the congressional budget office uses, assumes that for example, that the bush tax cuts will expire which may not happen and it didn t take into effect how a platter code, a more efficient code will incentivize economic growth. so, that s where the debate will be. and raise enough revenue. when you say static analysis, you raise the rates, lower the rates and adjust proportionally and the argument for a flat tax, it
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