You can’t analyze the plan statically. Reducing the corporate tax from 35% to 9% will translate into lower prices for everything you buy, in spite of the additional 9% sales tax. Even those on fixed incomes will have more purchasing power.
The lower tax rates will also turn this moribund economy into a vibrant, growing economy. If any of your fixed retirement income comes from equity investments, that will also benefit you directly!
I will continue to learn more about the 999 and listen to economists who know more about the effects of 999. I will be interested to learn who the rest of the economists are that Cain says he has consulted. I wonder why he won’t say who they are yet.