threatening to dredge it up. gingrich reporters say getting information from the house ethics investigation would be at the least unethical. pelosi says she s only talking about information already on the record. they asked the candidate about it yesterday. we turned over a million pages of material. we had a huge report. the total 83 charges were repudiated as false. the one mistake we made was a letter written by a lawyer that i didn t read carefully. mr. gingrich isn t telling the whole story about the house investigation back then. it s complicated but they wanted to know if he used money from tax exempt organizations to fund college courses that he taught and used, by his own admission, to further his political agenda. shortly after the rival filed the complaint, gingrich hired a washington lawyer who wrote two material letters to the ethics committee. gingrich signed the first letter and approved the second. both contained statements that were false. gingrich was te
shepard: and as we discussed the jobs plan of the senate, and democrats killed the bill. they did not sign it. they killed it. democrats will new focus efforts on blaming the gridlock on republicans in accusing the g.o.p. of having ideas not of their own. but, republicans say that they do have a plan for job growth, deficit reduction and deregulation. and, now, our political analyst on wednesday, so, republicans with juan. we knew from the going the bill would not make it because republicans are against the tax part of it. juan: absolutely. absolutely solid opposing it. the question was, if the president could get all the democrats and by shifting public
so you would have to cut government spending by half. but the point i want to get to in the tax part of it is you no, no, no, lawrence. let me you just go ahead. no, lawrence. i can t let you make a statement that is incorrect. anybody that said that the 9-9-9 plan will only raise half of the revenue, they are dead wrong. they have changed the assumptions. we did a very careful analysis to come up with this. so i cannot let you say it s only going to raise half of the revenue because that simply is not true. next question. okay. let s go to the bottom tax bracket and how they would be affected. the lowest federal taxpayers currently pay in single digits, like 2%, 4%. they end up paying a net of about 2% or 4% of their income in federal taxes. under your plan the lowest, the lowest federal income taxpayers would suddenly end up paying 18% of their income in federal
so you would have to cut government spending by half. but the point i want to get to in the tax part of it is you no, no, no, lawrence. let me you just go ahead. no, lawrence. i can t let you make a statement that is incorrect. anybody that said that the 9-9-9 plan will only raise half of the revenue, they are dead wrong. they have changed the assumptions. we did a very careful analysis to come up with this. so i cannot let you say it s only going to raise half of the revenue because that simply is not true. next question. okay. let s go to the bottom tax bracket and how they would be affected. the lowest federal taxpayers currently pay in single digits, like 2%, 4%. they end up paying a net of about 2% or 4% of their income in federal taxes. under your plan the lowest, the lowest federal income taxpayers would suddenly end up paying 18% of their income in federal taxation. 9% of their income they would
government spending by half. but the point i want to get to in the tax part of it is you no, no, no, lawrence. let me you just go ahead. no, lawrence. i can t let you make a statement that is incorrect. anybody that said that the 9-9-9 plan will only raise half of the revenue, they are dead wrong. they have changed the assumptions. we did a very careful analysis to come up with this. so i cannot let you say it s only going to raise half of the revenue because that simply is not true. next question. okay. let s go to the bottom tax bracket and how they would be affected. the lowest federal taxpayers currently pay in single digits, like 2%, 4%. they end up paying a net of about 2% or 4% of their income in federal taxes. under your plan the lowest, the lowest federal income taxpayers would suddenly end up paying 18% of their income in federal taxation. 9% of their income they would pay and then they d pay 9% on