I do like your style - you need to be a Cain adviser so you can explain to all of us Cain's nebulous 999 plan. You are obviously a man of great intelligence in complete control of yourself.
Obviously.
Just go to hermancain.com and click on the 9-9-9 plan. Apply your income, and remember what disappears.
15% capital gains becomes 0; 15.3% payroll tax becomes 0; 45% death tax becomes 0; 35% corporate tax becomes 9%, variable income tax rate as defined in 7,700 pages of the tax code becomes 9% after deducting for charitable gifts. Some people will go up, some will go down and $450,000,000,000 built in costs to perform the rites for the current code with go away.
The economy will skyrocket and unemployment will be cut in half.
The federal government will be out of the business of picking favorites by using our money against our own self interests.
“Cain’s nebulous 999 plan”
The most common criticism I hear of campaigns, aside from pure ad hominems, from high school student bodies to the presidency of the U.S., is that candidates weren’t specific enough. Glittering generalities, lacking in details, and blahblahblah. Which is true most of the time, though clichéd. Part of me agrees, and says it of candidates I hate, while part of me wants to counterargue there’s only so much time, how specific can you get?
Nevermind all that. 9-9-9 is pretty damn specific. As specific as you’ll see without there being an actual outline for a bill. Which is especialyly heartening, considering how new is the formulation (if the underlying ideas are just the old Fair and Flat taxes). This is the wrong argument against Cain. Try it out on Romney, who manages with 50-whatever bullet points to be both commonplace, unsurprising, and non-specific.