At current spending levels, 9-9-9 needs to be more like 15-15-15. We need to cut spending ... drasticly. Not saying a change in the tax code is not due. Just pointing out that our current problem is caused by spending.
Which is why 9-9-9 with a balanced budget amendment forces the massive cuts you desire. Govt doesn't have the revenue to continue the spending at current level and cannot barrow the difference. Why is it Conservative never learn the lesson? No amount of spending cuts will fix the problem. We been chasing the same notion for 40 years. It never works. How about we try something different this time? Merely cutting spending is addressing the symptoms, not the disease. The disease is the build in incentives for spending in our current tax code. No matter how much you cut, the spending always comes back. Until you control the revenue side, you will never control the spending side.
Can Herman Cain supply the leadership necessary to do both? Hell if I know. I do know that he'll have to win in a massive landslide if 9-9-9 is going to have any chance of seeing the light of day.
Once Cain imposes his national sales tax (what kind of conservative wants a new federal tax anyway?) at 9 percent whose to say future Congresses won't raise it to 15 or 20. Or raise it to 30 for the "rich" or 0 for the yutes. I love how so-called small government conservatives give Republicans a pass when they create all these new government taxes and programs, Nixon created the EPA, Bush created the DHS, and then they act all surprised and angry when Democrats use those same agencies to go after the American people.