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Event. >> thank you, governor scott. and welcome back to orlando, florida and the republican presidential debate. my colleague ma megyn kelly wil take us through the next round of questions on government spending and debt. >> governor, perry, governor romney has been hammering you on your idea of turning social security back to the states repeatedly. can you explain specifically how 50 separate social security systems are supposed to work? >> well, let me just say first for those people on social security today, for those people that are approaching social security, they don't have anything in...

And grew to over a thousand employees. i have run for governor of new mexico and reelection. i promise to submit a balanced budget to congress in the year 2013. i promise to veto legislation where expenditures exceed revenue. and if anybody doubts my willingness to veto bills, i think i vetoed more bills than any governor in the history of the united states. i think i vetoed more bills than all of the other governors in the country combined. add to that throwing out the entire federal tax system and replacing it with a consumption tax. the fair tax which would absolutely reboot the american ec...

Saying that. now -- my own view is that we have to make it very, very clear that social security is the responsibility of the federal government, not the state governments. we twr going to have one plan and make sure that it is fiscally sound and stable and i'm absolutely committed to keeping scoak social security working. i put in my book that i wrote a couple of years ago how o we could do that to make sure social security is stable not just for the next 25 years but the next 75. >> i would like to respond to that. >> go ahead, governor perry. >> speaking of books and being able to have thin...

Department of education. by the year 2000 it was eliminated and we fed on to it. then republicans added no child left behind. the goal should be set to get the government out completely but don't enforce this law of no child left behind. it is not going to do any good. nobody likes it and there is no value to it. the teachers don't like it and the students don't like it. give tax credits for people who opt out. we ought to have a right to opt out of the public system if we want. >> governor perry? >> there are a lot of good ideas here on the side whether it is cutting back on the department of...

Plan, my plan throws out the old one. he is still hooked to the current tax code. that dog won't hunt. >> the rule here is as we all know is if your name is mentioned in an answer you get 30 seconds to respond. governor ro romney. >> i put my plan out and i want to make it clear that my intent is to help the people most hurt by president obama's economy and the people most hurt are the middle income families of of america and that is why my plan says that if middle income families want to save their money, anybody earning under $200,000 and not pay any taxes on interest, dividends or capital g...