now leads in key swing and must win florida. cain beating romney there, 34-28. this comes on the heels of a national poll yesterday which put cain in the lead. now, cnn s polls of polls show that cain is still behind romney. just in that margin of error there, 23-20. whatever the case, it is no question that herman cain s popularity is surging. the national poll has you at number one. now the poll has you leading in south carolina and florida. what s your family thinking, and why do you think this happened, that you ve surged to the top? well, my family, they are not surprised. because they know me from my business career. because i ve always done some challenging things. but i believe this happened for two reasons. and it was first evidence with that florida straw poll. first, it demonstrates that the voice of the people is more important than the voice of the media, with all due respect. because for a while, as you know, some people in the media tried to paint this as a t
retiree plans hoping to make up for it later. and second, they ve been too hopeful here. thinking that deposits for retiree plans would grow twice as fast as it actually did over the last decade. now, the solutions could affect more than state employees. raising personal income taxes, for instance. 66% in illinois. that s how much they raise it. most going to pay for pensions. or breaking the promise and cutting current retiree benefits. colorado, minnesota, south dakota have all done that. so chris, the shortfall could amount, by the way, to over $20,000 per family across the country. it makes so many people nervous who are counting on that money. thanks, richard. it s now official, the price of gas is up by more than $1 a gallon from one year ago. look at the new numbers from aaa. $3.87, the national average. a 29 cent jump in just a month. $1.02 higher than a year ago. for president obama, the pain at the pump is killing his poll numbers. among critical independent
we have to explain it all. but it gets rid of all personal income taxes, all payroll taxes. all corporate and business income taxes. it replaces them with inclusive sales tax at the national level. price of consumer goods do not go up because the embedded tax comes out, fair tax goes in. eric: neil, point this out. it levels the playing field so the big corporations as tim carney pointed out full divisions of tax lawyers won t have an advantage against small businessman who wants to compete. absolutely. absolutely. no advantage at all. small businessman can t go to k. street in washington and pay $300,000 to a lobbyist to try to get them a special tax break in washington, d.c. the small businessmen who provide most of the jobs in the economy, they re working at a huge disadvantage, while companies like g.e . say hey, how about a couple of billion
we have to explain it all. but it gets rid of all personal income taxes, all payroll taxes. all corporate and business income taxes. it replaces them with inclusive sales tax at the national level. price of consumer goods do not go up because the embedded tax comes out, fair tax goes in. eric: neil, point this out. it levels the playing field so the big corporations as tim carney pointed out full divisions of tax lawyers won t have an advantage against small businessman who wants to compete. absolutely. absolutely. no advantage at all. small businessman can t go to k. street in washington and pay $300,000 to a lobbyist to try to get them a special tax break in washington, d.c. the small businessmen who provide most of the jobs in the economy, they re working at a huge disadvantage, while companies like g.e . say hey, how about a couple of billion
like our extremely costly health care system where we have to go after what s happening in the private sector, which overcharges for health in this country. okay. then there s the tax side. let me ask you about the tax side. the billionaires and millionaires have walked free in this country for 25 years. let me ask you about that. this is what the american people overwhelmingly say. they say by two-thirds i want numbers. dr. sachs win want numbers. would you be pleased if we went back to 1990 levels and got rid of the bush tax cuts and the upper income types would pay 39%. would that be sufficient? i think we have to do that. we have to clear a lot of loopholes, go after the corporate tax which is have gone down by 2 percentage points of gnp. all our big companies are parking money in the cayman islands. it s a game. we have to stop that game. we have to do high-end personal income taxes and corporate. i m asking are the clinton numbers good enough for you in