It certainly looks like Rand Paul might have stepped in it again. After coming out in support of a FairTax on Tuesday, he now says he doesn't want to talk about that and reporters and folks should focus about what his website says about his policies.
Certainly sounds like "try selling that in an election" all over again, which was his remark to a friendly crowd after extolling the virtues of a $2000 medicare deductible - and now professing that he's being taken out of context.
More after the jump...
http://www.courier-journal.com/...
"The federal tax code is a disaster no one would come up with if we were starting from scratch," Paul said in a written statement distributed by an anti-tax group and verified by Paul's campaign. "I support making taxes flatter and simpler. I would vote for the FairTax to get rid of the 16th Amendment, the IRS and a lot of the control the federal government exerts over us."
That was Tuesday, by Wednesday he's singing a different tune -
"I haven't really been saying anything like that," Paul told reporters following a speech in Henderson as part of his Kentucky bus tour. "I think it's probably better to go ... with what I'm saying on the campaign trail."
Huh.
Certainly sounds like another "but try selling that one in an election" to me.
What does Rand Paul really stand for? Really Believe? Does he believe in a $2000 Deductible and a Fairtax that would see 23% sales tax on everything or what he puts on his campaign website? First he denied very saying anything about a $2000 deductible, but when video was produced now he claims he was taken out of context. Similarly I bet he didn't expect the anti-tax group to release the letter he wrote them where he said he'd vote for a Fairtax.
He seems to campaign on one thing, but believes another. Who is Rand Paul? Try selling that one in an election.