Galveston plan

The Galveston Plan became a model for the nation.

The Galveston Plan thus stands — with the imposition of the poll tax in 1901 and the white primary in 1923 — as a signal event in Texas’s disfranchisement of African Americans.

The Chile/Galveston Plan Gingrich’s social security plan, as he reminded a debate audience on Nov. 23, is “based on Chile and based on Galveston, Texas.”

Herman Cain, the former pizza executive, has also spoken approvingly of the Galveston plan in several Republican presidential debates.

The Galveston plan’s total contribution rate is 13.9 percent of the payroll, with 6.1 percent coming from each worker, and 7.8 percent from the county — or, more specifically, its taxpayers.