Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum was the second GOP presidential candidate to get 15 minutes at the National Association of Manufacturers forum in Pella this morning. Santorum brought up the Occupy Wall Street movement in making the argument for his tax plan which would completely eliminate the corporate income tax.
“We’re still innovating in America, except we’re not producing what’s being innovated here and it’s one of the reasons that you see these Wall Street protesters and they’re concerned that you know the sort of middle of America is being hollowed out,” Santorum said, “that the wealth that’s being created by the innovators is not trickling down to the folks who would make those products.”
Toward the end of his remarks Santorum again drew a contrast between himself and the “top three candidates for president on the Republican side” who he said had “all” supported the Wall Street bail-out. “I don’t necessarily think that’s a good thing” (for the party to nominate someone who supported TARP), Santorum said.
About O.Kay Henderson
Kay is a founding member of the Radio Iowa network newsroom. In 1994, she became the network’s news director. She’s a featured reporter and commentator on Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press,” and the 2002 recipient of the Shelley Award.
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