Claim: Rick Perry "has advocated abandoning Social Security, scuttling Medicaid and ending the federal income tax."
Fact-check: Columnist Margaret Carlson says Perry has advocated abandoning Social Security, scuttling Medicand and ending federal income tax
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2011-08-28T00:00:00