Whether he agrees with Cain or not on this or that issue did not matter. This kind of character assassination from the "Macaca" Washington Post spawned Politico cannot be allowed to prevail.
This was a hill worth dying on, so to speak.
This kind of "journalism" has to be stopped now.
That said, I question the constitutionality of a national sales tax. I don't believe that the federal government has the authority to tax intrastate transactions. The federal government is already constitutionally barred from taxing exports between states.
Commerce within a state is the state's business.
-PJ
For discussion, and not to be argumentative, but isn’t the fed gas tax, communication tax, etc all very similar to a national sales tax? I am not a FAIR tax guy nor a fan of the third 9 in Cain’s plan, but I am open to the ideas. Certainly his overall approach is a vast improvement on our current system wrought with class warfare and crony corruption.
Looking for discussion only, and anxious to hear your thoughts.