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Will Tax Reform Save Rick Perry?

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    Texas governor unveils flat tax plan

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Evening I'm Bret -- it has been -- taxing morning and afternoon for Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry.

The Texas governors in South Carolina where He outlined his tax reform plan.

Designed to simplify the system.

And attract positive buzz to his campaign.

Chief political correspondent Carl Cameron has specifics.

Far back in the polls Texas governor Rick Perry tried to jump start his campaign.

With a simple optional 20% flat income tax this is the size of what we're talking about -- here.

Taxpayers will be able to fill this out the father taxes on that.

Families earning up to 500000 dollars a year would be allowed to deduct charitable giving.

Mortgage interest state and local taxes and a 121500 dollar exemption for individuals and dependence.

Perry plans sweeping entitlement and budget reforms and called out critics in advance to those who oppose it.

They're gonna wrap themselves in the cloak -- status quo.

America is under crushing burden of debt.

The latest CBS New York Times poll shows Herman -- least 45 to 21 over Mitt Romney nationally.

Perry is down to 6%.

He's seeing -- -- 999 tax plan for creating a sales tax.

And Romney's tax overhaul as more of the same others simply offer at least microwave plan warmed over reforms based on.

Fine ingredients.

Romney took himself up in Ohio while visiting a phone bank and working to preserve the GOP governors new public union reform law.

He stopped short of endorsing the policy which He backed only a few months ago I'm not speaking about them.

-- the particular ballot issues.

Those are the people of Ohio -- on the other hand unveiled a new web video today that adds to a steady stream of mistakes and distractions from his 999 proposal and we need you.

To get involved.

It features campaign chief of staff mark -- smoking at the very end career visual political imagery but He admits had nothing to do with -- or king's message.

There was no subliminal message the fact that I personally.

Would encourage people not to stop its just that I'm a smoker.

And this a lot of people on the staff said this let block big block.

That's what it was all about Perry's latest distraction has expressed uncertainty about the president's birth certificate and Donald -- belief that it's a fake.

Was the first question at an afternoon news conference despite having unveiled his flat tax just a few hours earlier that is that one of the biggest distractions that there -- -- We need to be talking about jobs.

And Perry suggested that the distractions -- attempts by his opponents to upstage his flat tax.

But it was the governor of Texas himself who just last night on the eve of unveiling the flat -- said.

Sometimes it's fun to poke at the president ask where your grades where's your birth certificate.

Carl Cameron live in Columbia, South Carolina more on this for the panel car.

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