at the republican race for the white house. between the straw poll in iowa back in august to january s iowa caucus, the candidates had 20 weeks to convince voters that they were the right man or woman to win the republican nomination. 20 weeks. that is a lot of time for the candidates to debate and to face some very tough scrutiny. how do you respond to people who say that your campaign has been a mess so far? i took seriously to put aside the talking points and i wish you would put aside the gotcha questions. customers, education, and the, as they would say in china, pitt, [foreign language] the current tax code, that dog won t hunt. i don t try to define who is rich and who is not rich.
let s get rid of the tax code and let s put out a new structure. now i m in georgia today campaigning with speaker gingrich because as you know i endorse him. he hasn t gotten all the way to 999 yet, but at least he s at 12.5, 15 and 0. but he is the only one who has come that close. but at least he s not at 666 which would really be a problem for him at that point, don t you think? [laughter] exactly. and that s what i admire about him. he understands jobs, jobs, jobs. the others want to still tinge we re the tax code. that will never boost this economy and that s one of the reasons that i m supporting speaker gingrich in this primary race. let s talk about the fact that you are now endorsing him. but where does he have to get his tracks traction back? he was soaring after south carolina and then things came
and let s put out a new structure. now i m in georgia today campaigning with speaker gingrich because as you know i endorse him. he hasn t gotten all the way to 999 yet, but at least he s at 12.5, 15 and 0. but he is the only one who has come that close. but at least he s not at 666 which would really be a problem for him at that point, don t you think? [laughter] exactly. and that s what i admire about him. he understands jobs, jobs, jobs. the others want to still tinge we re the tax code. that will never boost this economy and that s one of the reasons that i m supporting speaker gingrich in this primary race. let s talk about the fact that you are now endorsing him. but where does he have to get his tracks traction back? he was soaring after south carolina and then things came
at the republican race for the white house. between the straw poll in iowa back in august to january s iowa caucus, the candidates had 20 weeks to convince voters that they were the right man or woman to win the republican nomination. 20 weeks. that is a lot of time for the candidates to debate and to face some very tough scrutiny. how do you respond to people who say that your campaign has been a mess so far? i took seriously to put aside the talking points and i wish you would put aside the gotcha questions. customers, education, and the, as they would say in china, pitt, [foreign language] the current tax code, that dog won t hunt. i don t try to define who is rich and who is not rich. i want everybody in america to
it will raise more revenue. you take the 999 plan and turn it upside-down i think the devil is in the details. that was a lot of interesting criticisms. but let s ask, what was unfair about some of this criticisms of the 999 plan? all of the criticism of the 999 plan was wrong. let s start with the one who quoted that 80% of americans will pay higher taxes. no they re not. that study was flawed, mike. we know exactly the study that they got that conclusion from because, as you know, mike, in mathematics, if you change the assumptions, you will get a different result. that s what they did. the rest of the criticism, i believe, was sheer envy because all of their tax proposals rearranged the chairs on the deck of the titanic called the current tax code. i, along with speaker gingrich, were the only ones that said let s get rid of the tax code