Steve Forbes: Perry’s flat tax ‘most exciting tax plan since Reagan’s’

Steve Forbes: Perry’s flat tax ‘most exciting tax plan since Reagan’s’
by Zachary Roth
October 20, 2011
Steve Forbes, whose flat tax plan helped make him an unlikely contender for the Republican presidential nomination 15 years ago, is praising a new version of the idea from Rick Perry. And Forbes, who says he helped devise Perry’s plan, left little doubt that he’ll formally back the Texas governor before long.
In an interview with Yahoo News, Forbes called Perry’s proposal, announced in a speech Wednesday, “the most exciting tax plan since Reagan’s,” in 1980.
Asked whether that included his own 1996 plan, Forbes said it did, because unlike him in 1996, when he fell short of upsetting front-runner Bob Dole, Perry “is going to win.”
Forbes, the chief executive of his family’s eponymous publishing empire, said the Perry camp reached out to him for help in crafting their plan. “We got into discussions of basic principles–how the thing might be shaped,” he said. “The candidate concluded it ought be a simple rate. Make it as simple and bold as possible.”
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Forbes hasn’t officially said that he’s backing any candidate, but he left little doubt that he’ll formally get behind Perry soon. He said he would announce his support for one candidate soon, “and I don’t think it’ll surprise anyone.”.

Wild Thing’s comment………
A true flat tax is the best workable option for the entire country.
In 1981 Reagan began his quest to reduce the number of personal tax rates from roughly 64 spread over four categories of the federal income tax code, down to two, 28% and 15% by 1988. A great acommplishment.
What Perry wants to do is even better.
And also I really like Perry’s wonderful Energy Plan which would create several hundred thousand jobs in the 100 days. This would get the ball rolling. Perry knows energy very well. He has only been in a campaign for 2 months and the others have been running for months, and Romney for 5 years. Those so called debates run by liberal moderators were certainly not debates. However, you only want to smear and trash as you have from the moment he entered the race.
Rick Perry is a real leader with real solutions.
I love this quote!

….”When Romney kept insisting Perry let him talk and sounded whiney in doing it, the Texan finally looked at him and said, “Have at it.” So he uses a marvelous Southwest colloquialism to give Romney permission to proceed. That one may go down with Reagan’s “There you go again” to Carter. Never mind politics, American public life has not seen this kind of camera presence since maybe John Wayne. Men like him and women admire him. And he seems to be getting used to the debate format. On or off stage, he’s got a commanding and theatrical presence.” ~ Obi-Wan Kanobi Jim Geraghty