[FromTheSidelines]

It sounds like an enormous loophole to me designed to favor some specific group of people.

You're right, it is to favor a few specific groups of people:

1. The unemployed
2. Those looking to build businesses

Grow your business where unemployment is chronically high, you'll get a tax break. What's wrong with that? It's geographically - not genetic - based.

[magritte]

Cain’s idea of “empowerment zones” is a place like Detroit. When you start carving out special interest areas like the hood, that gets us right back on the bad track to “exceptions”

Cain needs to drop “empowerment zones.” It’s a loser.