Santorum's Economic Plan

Pethokoukis likes it.  He highlights the following:

1. Cut and simplify personal income taxes by cutting the number of tax rates to just two – 10% and 28% returning to the Reagan era pro-growth top tax rate.

4.  Lower the Capital Gains and Dividend tax rates to 12% to spur economic growth and investment.

5.  Reduce taxes for families by tripling the personal deduction for each child

6. Reduce and simplify taxes for families by eliminating marriage tax penalties throughout the federal tax code.

9. Eliminate the corporate income tax for manufacturers – from 35% to 0% – which will spur middle income job creation in the United States and will create a job multiplier effect for workers

Santorum has one of the most politically and economically cohesive policy plans in the GOP field. He wants to help middle-class families and sees tax policy as a way of directly doing that, beyond trying to boost GDP growth. It’s more populist-conservative in many ways than pure free-market/libertarian, the latter of which seems to more reflect the Tea Party trend in GOP economic policy

If you don't think that families and chilluns are a god thing, fine; but you would be wrong.  Demographics is destiny.

I'm not surprised that he refers to the TEA Party as libertarian/free market.  But that's the 'visible' TEA Party folks--IOW, the running-mouth bunch.