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That. we're providing people more in the way of real opportunity. but think of where this country would be if during the first two years of barack obama, you would -- it would have had a different president. i would have ripped open the tax code and i would have done what simpson/bowles recommended to the tune of $1.1 billion. we've got a corrupt tax code. you've got to say how are you going to pay for it? we've got to stimulate some confidence in the creative class in this country. right now, they're sitting on their hands. and they're not going to have a more optimistic view of our direction...

Consumed 27% of our economy, about a quarter. today it consumes 37% of our economy. we're only inches away from no longer being a free economy. and our democrat friends wants us to just keep raising taxes a little more. just give us a little more. government is already too big. we have to rein in the scale of the federal government. so we do need to have our employer tax rates brought down to be competitive with other nations. that's about 25%. we also have to make sure we give relief to people who need it most. the people that have been hurt in the obama economy are the people in the middle c...

The tune of $1.1 billion. we've got a corrupt tax code. you've got to say how are you going to pay for it? we've got to stimulate some confidence in the creative class in this country. right now, they're sitting on their hands. and they're not going to have a more optimistic view of our direction. >> you have the same amount of revenue as simpson/bowles plan. that was the commissioner appointed by president obama. would anybody else on the stage agree? >> i'm sorry? >> to raise the kind of revenues called for in the simpson/bowles commission? >> no, no, i wouldn't. in fact, our plan puts toget...

The number of deductions that could occur and limit the number of exceptions that can occur. i don't want to raise capital gains tax rates as they do in bowles/simpson. broadening the base is the right way to go for our tax code long term. immediately, let's get some relief for middle income americans. >> congressman paul, we hear over and over again, people are hoping for a great vision for america once again. america on the move once again. give us the great vision that is realistic given the financial situation, a realistic great vision for america. >> well, it's to restore america to our f...

this president has sanitized every defense document. everything. the word radical islam doesn't appear anywhere. why? because we're fight -- we're trying to fight this politically correct war and not talking about how they hate us and what we must do to stop us. >> we know you have differences with president obama, but who has the better argument between snoe santorum and huntsman? >> i would send troops back into iraq. >> now? >> i think we start talking with the iraqi individuals there, the idea that we allow the iranians to come back into iraq and take over that country with all o...