When did he say he wouldn’t shut down other forms of taxation first? My understanding is that 9-9-9 replaces the other taxes.
It doesn’t replace the income tax. That must be repealed first. What’s to stop these taxes (especially income tax) from being raised again, or worse, the graduated income tax from being reinstated. He should be pushing the Fair Tax or the Flat Tax on his platform. To me, this 9-9-9 was a mistake. There is already a Fair tax movement that he could have joined and that is a sensible tax.