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by David Kurtz
08.22.11 | 9:58 am

Rick Perry: Just because I wrote a book calling for privatizing Social Security doesn’t mean I’m for privatizing Social Security.

Also, the Perry campaign won’t say whether he still favors repealing the 16th Amendment, which sanctified the income tax, as he proposed in the book.

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