"Bong?" I didn't hear anything about any "bong." Or are you trying to advance some kind of feeble argument by ridiculing the poster? Frankly, I can see, without benefit of any "bong," much to dislike here. The sponsors are a who's who of RINOS, the kind that have seen us crash into the reefs.
PS. Mark me down with the opponents of a National Sales Tax. I worked my ass off for years and years, paying in to an income tax. Now that I am getting close to a break in that tax by virtue of retiring, Cain wants to create a brand new tax to hit my purchases (with my already heavily taxed savings) in my golden years?
New taxes must be resisted and stopped, not embraced.
The Washington Establishment has been trying to get some sort of consumption tax since the 1980s [national sales tax, value added tax, fair tax, etc.] while keeping alive Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes calculated from incomes. If this ever happens you can kiss America as we know it goodbye.
And, it is only self evident that a national sales tax as proposed by Herman Cain would be greeted with open arms by depots and political schemers who dream of a tax which can constantly be increased in such small increments, say a quarter of a percent at a time to feed the “starving children” which would avoid significant outcry, and the proverbial frog, the America People, will eventually be cooked before they realize what has happened.
And yet, that quarter of a percent will efficiently drain billions upon billions of dollars from the American People’s pockets, which will then be used to grow the beast in Washington which our founding fathers intended to be the people’s servant and not their master.
Why on earth would anybody support a national sales tax which Herman is promoting along with the continuation of two forms of income taxation, including that which taxes working people's earned wages and would tax the food a mother buys to feed her child, taxes the clothing she purchases to cloth that child, taxes the fuel used to heat that child’s room during winter months, taxes the medicine a mother needs to care for a sickly child, and then our beloved Herman Cain would tax the coffin used to bury her child because she simply could not afford his national sales tax on every imaginable necessity of life in addition to Mr. Cain taxing the bread she earns when selling the property she has in her labor?
How many poor working people who are now meeting their own economic needs will be forced onto the public dole under Herman’s tax plan which keeps alive two forms of the socialist income tax?
Is Herman Cain’s tax reform consistent with the thinking of one of our most prominent founding fathers who said:
“…..with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities“.__Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
But getting back to Herman Cain’s “empowerment zones”. Why are so many “conservatives” comfortable with folks in government picking winners and losers? Have you not learned your lesson with the Solyndra deal?
JWK
Read my lips Herman Cain. No additional sales tax on top of existing income taxes