and the payroll tax cuts and avoiding tax hike at that point which many economists suggested would have cost us more in economic growth, the president may have done himself a good deal of benefit by agreeing to that tax compromise at that point, which also makes i think especially more absurd he is talk about the tax hikes. it makes his argument in his plan, deficit reduction plan to the extent it is a plan for raising taxes now at a time where economic growth is slowing. really i think dangerous. bret: do you agree with that? he is careful to talk about raising rate on the rich. when the current agreement expires so that would happen after the election. in other words, he knows as a man who wants to be re-elected could be suicide if he raises rates now because it would produce a double dip recession. then he would beest toast. he talks about it in the abstract. he wants the political issue, tacking the rich. republicans love the rich and
business works or how to go about solving the biggest problem we have. which is stimulating this economy. the only way to fix our metioned-up tax messed-up tax code is throw it out and put in a new system called the fair tax. [ applause ] bret: the fair tax would abolish the i.r.s. with a system that includes replacing all federal income, corporate and payroll-based taxes with a national retail sales tax. cain says he feels compelled to get involved. you had stage four colon cancer. yes. spread to your liver? yes. that is a change, a life-changing event. i have a 30% chance of beating cancer. that was nearly five years ago. i have been totally cancer-free. he insists his race is an asset. i go to a very large black baptist church in atlanta. they come up to me at church and go i listened to your
massachusetts romney care isn t much different than obama care. brett: his scathing critique is president obama s white house? almost 7% of his appointees are the people that he surrounds himself have actually worked in the private sector. they don t understand how business works or how to go about solving the biggest problem we have which is stimulating this economy. the only way to fix our messed up tax code is to throw it out and put in a whole new system called the fair tax. [ applause ] brett: the fair tax would apolish the irs with a system replacing all federal income, corporate and payroll based taxes with a national retail sales tax. cain says he feels compelled to get involved? you had stage four colon cancer spread to your liver?
massachusetts romney care isn t much different than obama care. brett: his scathing critique is president obama s white house? almost 7% of his appointees are the people that he surrounds himself have actually worked in the private sector. they don t understand how business works or how to go about solving the biggest problem we have which is stimulating this economy. the only way to fix our messed up tax code is to throw it out and put in a whole new system called the fair tax. [ applause ] brett: the fair tax would apolish the irs with a system replacing all federal income, corporate and payroll based taxes with a national retail sales tax. cain says he feels compelled to get involved? you had stage four colon cancer spread to your liver?
it s another candidate. it s herman cain himself. in an op-ed that he wrote last november we re not the idiots. let s see what herman cain said about this plan sweeping the nation that kids are even talking about as they re eating captain crunch. like the focus of dinner conversations across america. not my dinner. he says this about 999. the worst idea is a proposed national sales tax wait, the worst idea? just a bad idea? did he say his plan was the worst idea? the worst. which is a disguised v.a.t. tax, value added tax, on top of everything we already pay in federal taxes. a national retail sales tax on top of all the confusing well this is let me just clarify that he is just talking about sales, unfair taxes we have today is insane. it gives the out of control bureaucrats and politicians in denial one more tool to lie,