Ron Paul Delegates Arrested As They Win a Majority at Louisiana GOP Convention. “I’m handicapped!
I need a doctor!” “Sir, this is the chairman!” The Louisiana State Republican Convention descended into chaos Saturday morning, with several delegates being arrested and the convention chairman being thrown to the ground by police. Sources report that state party officials panicked when it became clear that Ron Paul delegates commanded a decisive majority of the delegates on the floor – at least 111 of 180 (62%). The convention began peacefully with a prayer and invocation. At this point, a motion was made to elect a new convention chairman. Video footage shows an older gentleman in a blue shirt being violently dragged away by police and then shoved to the ground.
Many observers expressed shock that the establishment would resort to such violent tactics against fellow Republicans. For example, on Thursday night, the State Central Committee (SCC) of the Louisiana Republican Party voted to completely overhaul the existing convention rules. Hamdan Azhar. Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan is simple: most will simply pay more. Jim Young / Reuters "If the public understands it, they will support it and demand it.
That is going to be the difference. It is not a complicated piece of legislation," Herman Cain says of his "9-9-9" tax plan. By John W. Schoen, NBC News Editor's note: This story has been corrected to include the dropped word "income" in the paragraph about households who pay no income tax. When it comes to Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's proposed 9-9-9 tax plan, there’s one thing all sides agree on: it’s very simple. 9 Craziest Foreign Policy Statements from Saturday's Republican Debate - Max Fisher - International. It's not hard to see why the first GOP debate on foreign policy was held on a Saturday night and only partially broadcast nationwide Reuters Whatever you think of the Republican presidential candidates on domestic issues -- which are, so far, at the heart of the 2012 race -- their collective performance on foreign policy has been a bit softer.
The candidates tend to agree more than they disagree, prefer the general (Israel good, Iran bad) to the specific (don't ask about Pakistani nukes), and can occasionally make some real blunders when discussing America's role in the world. The scheduling of the first foreign policy debate of the race says it all: Saturday night at 8pm, with only an hour broadcast nationally; many viewers had to watch the last 30 minutes online. Still, the breadth and depth of the bloopers in this debate are telling: foreign policy does not appear to be an area where the GOP candidates are expending a lot of energy. 84% would pay more under Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan - Oct. 18. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Under Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax reform plan, 84% of U.S. households would pay more than they do under current tax policies, according to a report released Tuesday by a nonpartisan research group.
And the impact would be felt most heavily by the lowest income groups. Those are some of the estimates from the Tax Policy Center's analysis of Cain's proposal, which has helped make him a leading contender for the Republican 2012 presidential nomination. While some key questions about the 9-9-9 plan remain unanswered, the Tax Policy Center's analysis is one of the first to take a comprehensive look at its potential impact. Cain's 9-9-9 plan would replace much of the current tax code with a flat-rate system: a 9% individual income tax; a 9% corporate income tax and a 9% national sales tax.
Estate and gift taxes would be eliminated, as would the payroll tax, and most tax credits, deductions and exemptions. There are two reasons for that discrepancy between the poor and the rich.