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Were the lieutenant governor working with a democratic governor what would you have done differently to bridge that gap? >> first what i wouldn't do is give tax breaks to corporations in january. we estimated over the next ten years $2.3 billion of massive tax cuts to corporations. what i wouldn't have done is balanced the tax -- the budget on the backs of hard working citizens of our state. he gaves tax breaks in january but then come february has to balance the budget on the backs of middle class citizens on our education and our kids and middle class citizens. teachers. nurses. firefighters...

the income tax rate they pay now or 20%. it would keep the hugely mortgage interest and deductions for families earning less than half a million a year and would cut the corporate tax rate from 5% to 20 and temporarily slash it to 5.25 and eliminate taxes on stock dividends and long term capital gains. perry says he aims to unleash american ingeneral unite for a new american century. >> we will set our employers and our people free by slashing the cost of government, cutting taxes for the middle class families, balancing our budget and growing our economy. the future of america is to...

Democrats, basically, blame speculators, who are in the oil markets. but that doesn't make a lot of sense, because oil, prices really are based on supply and demand and traders speculate both going up and going down. big oil, people are pointing fingers at that and saying they get tax breaks but if we stop tax breaks there, do we stop tack breaks for almost every industry in the u.s.? and, then there is concern about drilling, of course. drilling is the answer, that many republicans have, to have more drilling we have a lot of domestic oil here that is completely under used because oil compani...

Hit by the recession? >> reporter: they were hit hard, randy. unemployment is slightly above the national average. of course they've lost jobs for years and years in textiles, home furnishings but building up in other sectors, energy, biomeds, some of the areas and finance, of course, always a big thing there. what they think, randi, is this has nothing to do with politics in the end. what it has to do with is focusing the nation's attention on their town and as the mayor said, separating them from the pack of many, many other sort of medium sized cities in the competitive environment need to ...

Famously debt-free mississauga may soon run out of money. >> we are not allowed to give tack breaks to industry and commerce in the province of ontario. it's illegal. we are conscious of the needs of the community. taxes is not the only thing a company looks at. they want to attract the type of personnel that they need to operate. >> reporter: mccallion has nurtured relationships with developers. >> if you're going to build a subdivision, you're going to build a community scenter, fix p the park. she made the developers pave the way and kept taxes down. >> reporter: mccallion points to the tow...