believe we can get america back to work and that is the only way that america works is when americans are working. thank you. mike: mr. speaker, thank you very much. great to see you. well, coming up, we are going to go back to the undecided voters in our audience and then find out if they were satisfied with what they heard from the candidates and whether their answers brought them a little closer to making a decision as it may have happened with you. stay with us. we will be right back from charleston, south carolina. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is mary. who has a million things to pick up each nth on top of her prescriptions. so she was thrilled that her walgreens pharmacist recommended a 3-month supply and would always be there to answer questions about her health. now mary gets 3 refills in one and for 3 months, she s done. more or less. ask your pharmacist about a 90 day supply today. walgreens. there s a way to stay well.
for one year. the american chamber of commerce estimates 3.6 million jobs will be created when a trillion dollars of that comes back onshore and is then put into our economy. the place that you will see america s always been a country where the next big thing. i mean steve jobs and what he innovated and people like him, and some private sector small entrepreneur who is creating the next big thing. we need to be giving them the incentive to be on shore doing that and not driving them off with tax policy and regulatory policy. that is the reason that 20% flat tax not only on the personal side but a 20% corporate income tax that will make america competitive. that is the way to get america ahead. tax and regulatory reform. do it. mike: governor perry, thank you. you were right exactly on the time. i didn t even have to cut you off whatsoever.
but washington, d.c. is broken. and we need a president of the united states that understands how to bring change and bring real change because washington and wall street are corrupt. and we need a president who understands that we are going have to have an outsider come in to washington, d.c. that clearly has the background and the track record to bring that needed change and that radical change to washington, d.c. i have always lived a purpose driven life. it has never been my purpose to be the president of the united states or to get rich. it has been my purpose to serve our country. and that is why i m in this race for the united states presidency. we need to make sure that we have a president with a plan, a tax plan. a balanced budget plan. a way to radically change washington, d.c. with a part-time congress, send them home, let them work part time and then keep that radical change in place. i m rick perry and i ask you for your support right here in
we need to cut the taxes, cut the regulation and bring that manufacturing back to the united states and that is the way you do it. [ applause ] mike: thank you very much. let s go to our next question from our audience. yes, sir? welcome, governor perry. yes, sir. my name is nate hubbard and i m personally concerned about ridiculous regulations by the environmental protection agency. me, too. and i would like to know what your stance on that would be and specifically are you in favor of eliminating that agency and if not why? yes, sir. well, i will tell you hall of fame not sureth is a state that has been under any more assault than the state of texas by the epa whether it is the cross state pollution act that we got a federal court to block. whether it is coming in and taking over our clean air act. i mean they are absolutely out of control. spewing out regulations on a
just three years has gone from on average during bush and clinton of producing about 60 regulations per year. they produce thousands but 60 that are the really onerous high cost regulations that make us uncompetitive on a variety of fronts. those are regulations that cost over $100 million. i support a piece of legislation, by the way, that will require congress to approve those regulations instead of the obama administration or any administration putting those high costs in the american business community without some sort of congressional approval. but this administration has not done 60 a year as it was in the last 16 years. they did 150 of those types of regulations last year. they are crushing the entrepreneurial spirit. i was up in greenville the other day and i had someone who was in the mortgage business and they said i went from 30 minutes a week spending time on regulations to three hours a day after dodd frank. it is crushing my business, i m getting out. we need to have reg