the income tax rate they pay now or 20%. it would keep the hugely mortgage interest and deductions for families earning less than half a million a year and would cut the corporate tax rate from 5% to 20 and temporarily slash it to 5.25 and eliminate taxes on stock dividends and long term capital gains. perry says he aims to unleash american ingeneral unite for a new american century. we will set our employers and our people free by slashing the cost of government, cutting taxes for the middle class families, balancing our budget and growing our economy. the future of america is too important to be left to the washington politicians. and joining me now with more on perry s number is cnn s number one numbers guy, ali velshi, this is kind of a flat tax and kind of not. the issue with it is that i don t know who in america wouldn t choose the 20%. you could run the numbers three ways, you could do it with 20% he s plo posing. do it the normal way which he says he ll leave i
senator edward kennedy. senator? the one he touted at the time, and remember, it was only five years ago, as a model for the rest of the country. i think there are a number of features in the massachusetts plan that could inform washington on ways to improve health care for all americans. the one crafted with the help of m.i.t. s jonathan gruber and one that helped president obama craft what some call obama-care. and what they now coin obomney care. he s now running away from it as fast as he can, say his critics. no longer saying it should be held up. but it s another little known piece of his law that s giving him the biggest headache today. one that says any resident of massachusetts is entitled if they need it to state subsidized health care regardless of their immigration status. mitt romney said in the debate tore into rick perry s statewide program to educate young people even illegal immigrants. you talk about magnets. you put in place a magnet to draw illegal
the one he touted at the time was a model for the national health care plan. what governor romney s former presidential rival called obamany care for its similarities to the governor s law. governor romney has been running away from his critics as fast as he can, saying it should no longer be held up as a model. it s another little known piece of his law that s giving him the biggest headache today, one that says any residents of massachusetts is entitled if they need it, to state subsid e subsidized health care, regardless of their immigration status. mitt romney is the one who tore into texas governor rick perry s statewide program to educate young people, even illegal immigrants. you talk about magnets. you put in place a magnet to draw illegals to this state which was giving $100,000 in tuition credit to illegals that come to this country, then you have the big states of illegal immigrants are california and florida. over the last ten years they ve had no increase i
in the trial of dr. conrad murray resumes today after a surprising switch in defense strategy yesterday. on the stand right now is dr. kminger who also specializes in sleep medication as well. wednesday defense attorneys told the judge that they are no longer claiming that jackson swallowed a fatal dose of propofol but they are still arguing that he injected the anesthetic himself and swallowed other sedatives while dr. murray was not looking. a renoned cardiologist testified that murray was grossly negligent. giving propofol in ab unmonitored setting without appropriating monitoring and equipment, not being prepared,
over him for 24 hours. this is just ridiculous when you hear this. there is no way this man murray shouldn t have done something at that point to try to save his patient? why? because he was worried about his $150,000 a month, thank you very much. megyn: mark, it is not conrad murray s job as a personal physician to insure michael jackson doesn t have a drug dependency, is it? no, you will hear that from the defense. you will also hear conrad murray didn t start michael jackson s drug problem. it was years earlier. it was other doctors who got him hooked to certain medication. it was conrad murray who said i need to wean him off. and he said no more propofol. in that desperation, not receiving his needed sleep medication. that s when michael jackson