★ CUT Taxes and Spending. BALANCE the Budget by 2020. GROW Jobs and the Economy.
★ FIX THE TAX CODE
Institute Individual Flat Income Tax Rate of 20%
o Allow Individuals to Choose Existing Tax Code or Simple Flat Tax System
o Preserve Deductions for Mortgage Interest, Charity, and State/Local Taxes
o Include Standard Exemption for Individuals/Dependents of $12,500
o Standard Exemptions and Other Deductions are Phased Out for Filers with Annual
Incomes Above $500,000
Eliminate Tax on Social Security Benefits
Eliminate Tax on Dividends and Capital Gains
Eliminate Death Tax
No Federal Sales Tax or Value-Added Tax
Reduce Corporate Income Tax Rate to 20% to Enhance American Competitiveness
o Eliminate Corporate Loopholes and Special-Interest Tax Breaks
o Transition to a Territorial Tax System
o Allow Locked-Up Overseas Capital to be Brought Back to the U.S. at a Reduced Tax
Rate of 5.25%
★ FIX THE FEDERAL REGULATORY SYSTEM
Immediate Moratorium on All Pending Regulations
Full Audit of Every Regulation Passed Since 2008
o Regulations that fail audit will be repealed
Federal Regulations Automatically Sunset Unless Congress Renews Them
Institute Annual Regulatory Budget for Each Agency
Create a Searchable Public Database with All Regulations Currently in Force
★ FIX SOCIAL SECURITY FOR ALL GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS
Preserve Benefits for Current and Near-Term Social Security Beneficiaries
Protect Social Security Trust Fund
Allow Younger Workers to Invest In Personal Retirement Accounts
Allow State Employees to Opt Out of Social Security
Gradually Increase Full Retirement Age to Reflect Gains in Life Expectancy
Use Price Growth to Index Benefits for Higher-Income Beneficiaries
★ FIX MEDICARE AND MEDICAID TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE
Reform Medicare to be Sustainable for the Long-Term
Return Medicaid Responsibility to States to Increase Health Care Quality and Access
★ BALANCE THE BUDGET
Cap Federal Spending at 18% of GDP and Balance the Budget by 2020
Reduce Non-Defense Discretionary Spending by $100 Billion in the First Year
Demand a Balanced Budget Amendment that Does Not Raise Taxes2
End Baseline Budgeting and Require Common-Sense Scoring Rules
Reform the Budget Process
o Institute Automatic Government Shutdown Protection
o Give Annual Budget Resolution the Force of Law
o No More Earmarks
o Require Emergency Spending to be Spent Only on Emergencies
o PAYGO for New Federal Programs
Freeze Federal Civilian Hiring and Salaries Until the Budget is Balanced
No More Bailouts
★ REPEAL JOB-KILLING FEDERAL LAWS
Repeal ObamaCare
Repeal Onerous Sarbanes-Oxley Regulations on Small Businesses
Repeal Dodd-Frank CUT, BALANCE, AND GROW
★ CUT Taxes and Spending. BALANCE the Budget by 2020. GROW Jobs and the Economy.
★ FIX THE TAX CODE
Institute Individual Flat Income Tax Rate of 20%
o Allow Individuals to Choose Existing Tax Code or Simple Flat Tax System
o Preserve Deductions for Mortgage Interest, Charity, and State/Local Taxes
o Include Standard Exemption for Individuals/Dependents of $12,500
o Standard Exemptions and Other Deductions are Phased Out for Filers with Annual
Incomes Above $500,000
Eliminate Tax on Social Security Benefits
Eliminate Tax on Dividends and Capital Gains
Eliminate Death Tax
No Federal Sales Tax or Value-Added Tax
Reduce Corporate Income Tax Rate to 20% to Enhance American Competitiveness
o Eliminate Corporate Loopholes and Special-Interest Tax Breaks
o Transition to a Territorial Tax System
o Allow Locked-Up Overseas Capital to be Brought Back to the U.S. at a Reduced Tax
Rate of 5.25%
★ FIX THE FEDERAL REGULATORY SYSTEM
Immediate Moratorium on All Pending Regulations
Full Audit of Every Regulation Passed Since 2008
o Regulations that fail audit will be repealed
Federal Regulations Automatically Sunset Unless Congress Renews Them
Institute Annual Regulatory Budget for Each Agency
Create a Searchable Public Database with All Regulations Currently in Force
★ FIX SOCIAL SECURITY FOR ALL GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS
Preserve Benefits for Current and Near-Term Social Security Beneficiaries
Protect Social Security Trust Fund
Allow Younger Workers to Invest In Personal Retirement Accounts
Allow State Employees to Opt Out of Social Security
Gradually Increase Full Retirement Age to Reflect Gains in Life Expectancy
Use Price Growth to Index Benefits for Higher-Income Beneficiaries
★ FIX MEDICARE AND MEDICAID TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE
Reform Medicare to be Sustainable for the Long-Term
Return Medicaid Responsibility to States to Increase Health Care Quality and Access
★ BALANCE THE BUDGET
Cap Federal Spending at 18% of GDP and Balance the Budget by 2020
Reduce Non-Defense Discretionary Spending by $100 Billion in the First Year
Demand a Balanced Budget Amendment that Does Not Raise Taxes2
End Baseline Budgeting and Require Common-Sense Scoring Rules
Reform the Budget Process
o Institute Automatic Government Shutdown Protection
o Give Annual Budget Resolution the Force of Law
o No More Earmarks
o Require Emergency Spending to be Spent Only on Emergencies
o PAYGO for New Federal Programs
Freeze Federal Civilian Hiring and Salaries Until the Budget is Balanced
No More Bailouts
★ REPEAL JOB-KILLING FEDERAL LAWS
Repeal ObamaCare
Repeal Onerous Sarbanes-Oxley Regulations on Small Businesses
Repeal Dodd-Frank
Great article! My husband will really love this - "She leaned toward me, ready to listen and when I asked whether she believed real chili had beans, she grinned and said, “absolutely not, but I do put a little sugar in my grits." He totally believes that beans do not belong in chili in Texas. Someone told him, "Well, they have Wolf Brand chili in the grocery store with beans. Someone in Texas is eating it." He replied, "That's for the snowbirds." Hahahahahahaha! Viva la Anita Perry!
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Susan Olsen My Interview with Anita Perry, the First Lady of Texas
Posting the things that Fox News and the GOP Establishment refuse to show you or tell you about Gov. Perry.
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Rick Perry Aides Israel to Stop Freedom Flotilla II
Texas Governor Rick Perry - and current GOP Presidential candidate - used his influence recently to help an Israeli law firm stop the onset of another left wing activist attack on that country via flotilla. Since some of the prominent activists are American - such as Code Pink's Medea Benjamin - the Neutrality Act was being violated.
The mission of the far left activists never came to fruition. Beating them at their own game, Israel succeeded through the legal system. Fighting smart. Texans can be proud of Governor Perry's part in the action.
There is still a lot I like about Perry. He still has a long way to go to prove he has the chops to run the race in front of him and to actually DEBATE...
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Text of Gov. Perry’s Uproot and Overhaul Washington Speech in Bettendorf, Iowa
The issue this election is not whether Washington is broken, but how we go about fixing it. There are two approaches, and even my own party is split.
There are some who want to tinker with the status quo. They want to work within the current system to achieve marginal change. Then there are those who believe, as I do, that Washington is too broken to be fixed by tinkering on the margins.
We should apply the wisdom of Solomon to Washington. Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3, says, “there is a time to plant and a time to uproot, there is a time to tear down and a time to build.”
There is still a lot I like about Perry. He still has a long way to go to prove he has the chops to run the race in front of him and to actually DEBATE...
He was the bomb in this last foreign policy debate. Did you get a chance to listen to it? He is getting better. I love what George Will had to say this past Sunday on THIS WEEK:
From George Will:
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“[H]is poll numbers are down. He had a steep climb before Wednesday night. The climb got steeper,” Will said, referring to Perry’s much-lampooned brain freeze at the recent CNBC GOP primary debate. “But I would remind you that in in the 2008 campaign, a presidential candidate gave a speech in Oregon in which he said, ‘I visited all 57 states and have 1 more to go.’ That man is in the White House.”
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