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I can’t afford to pay both a federal sales tax on top of a state
Nerds 4 Cain ^ | 10-19-11 | OnTheOppositeShore

Posted on 10/19/2011 12:27:42 PM PDT by Brookhaven

  1. 22% of the retail price of items is due to federal taxes. When you buy an apple today for $1.00, 22 cents of that dollar is taxes.
    Herman Cain eliminates those taxes (including the 35% business tax) and he replaces it with a flat 9% business tax. Prices will go down at least 10%.

  2. Your take home pay will go up by almost 8%, because the payroll tax is eliminated.
999 means higher take home pay and lower prices. Even paying a 9% sales tax, you will walk away from the cash register with more money in your pocket than you do today.


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KEYWORDS: 22strawman; 999; hermancain
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To: TLittlefella
Wonderful idea ain't it?
I'm against any plan that adds yet another new tax that will just be another tool to screw the taxpayer.
It's MY money, damnit!
41 posted on 10/19/2011 1:02:30 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: petercooper
I don’t eat apples. How will this plan help me?

It will make apples easier to buy for those who do eat apples. By doing so, more people will be able to eat one a day and keep the doctor away. By keeping the doctor away, demand for the physician's services decreases. In response to lower demand, the physician will be forced to lower his prices to attract business. You can now save money on your visits to the doctor. And, that is how this plan helps you.

42 posted on 10/19/2011 1:03:21 PM PDT by tnlibertarian (Things are so bad now, Kenyans are saying Obama was born in the USA.)
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To: Brookhaven

Also your state taxes go down.
If you were paying 6% State tax on that 100 $1 apples you pay $6 in state taxes.

If you pay 6% state tax on the 100 .88 cent apples you on pay 5.28 cent in state taxes.

Today the state is taxing you on the sale prices which include Fed tax built in, state is taxing the the Fed tax you pay


43 posted on 10/19/2011 1:03:21 PM PDT by NoDRodee (U>S>M>C)
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To: bkepley

Here’s what I like about Herman Cain. He’s not a phony, wooden, flip-flopper. I believe that he can and will be the first real deal presidential candidate we’ve had in a long time.

That debate last night was embarrassing for the so-called front runners. Did either of those guys even finish the night as remotely likable?

I think it’s high time conservatives stop bashing the only plan the American public can name or understand.


44 posted on 10/19/2011 1:03:27 PM PDT by IdratherbeatPemberley
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To: Elendur

and those are the people that hold most of our debt... now you know why the ‘insiders’ don’t like his plan.

Follow the money.


45 posted on 10/19/2011 1:03:46 PM PDT by TV Dinners (Hope is not a Strategy)
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To: Brookhaven

anyone here pay state and fed gas tax, or a state, fed gas tax and state sales tax???


46 posted on 10/19/2011 1:04:38 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Brookhaven

Except you left out (on purpose?) the deductions people now receive when they itemize, in which case your average middle income homeowner and/or self-employed small business owner is likely going to be paying more in taxes. Maybe a lot more.


47 posted on 10/19/2011 1:04:45 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter Hobbit)
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To: Brookhaven

What no one discusses on the payroll side is that the social security tax remains. Many of us (not me) only pay social security and medicare tax. So they get hit with an extra near 9%. Plus the student loan deduction goes away.

This will hit the younger population.


48 posted on 10/19/2011 1:05:35 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Brookhaven

All the proposals for drastic change to the tax structure (999, flat tax, fair tax, etc.) suffer from obvious logical flaws.

They claim that simultaneously:
1. Everybody’s (or almost everybody’s) taxes will go down;
2. The proposal will be revenue neutral.

This will not fly. For a tax system to be revenue neutral, if taxpayer A’s taxes go down by $1000, taxpayer B’s must go up by the same amount.

IOW, there will be specific winners and losers with any change in the system. As a general rule, those who see their taxes going up with any general proposal will oppose it with much greater fervor than those whose taxes might theoretically go down will support it.

That is why major changes are so difficult to bring about. Concentrated opposition, diffused support.


49 posted on 10/19/2011 1:05:38 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: bkepley

Try posting like a rational sane adult instead of hysteric ignorant child and we will not think you so boneheaded


50 posted on 10/19/2011 1:05:58 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: nhwingut

Let’s assume you had Econ 100 & 200 in college. The key consideration is price elasticity. Assuming you know what that is, let’s presume the stabilized market price is indeed $1 per apple, of which the apple producer is happily making 5¢ per apple.

Now when the apple producer does not have 10¢ of tax burden carried forward in the price of their apple (because the end buyer ALWAYS pays the tax burden on products added anytime over the supply cycle), they’ll have 2 options:

1) Keep selling the apple at the $1 price and realize the additional margin as profit... or

2) reduce the price of the product and realize the same margin and profitability.

Obviously, if you choose option 1) above, you might encounter competition willing to reduce their competitive product to the price that reflects the margin that was occurring back before the tax burden was lifted.

This is all FREE MARKET dynamics at work. If you are an advocate of the free market, then none of this should be a surprise to you and you will agree that a reduced tax burden to the producer/supplier equates to a lower price to the end buyer in EVERY instance where it is permitted to work.


51 posted on 10/19/2011 1:06:29 PM PDT by GreenAccord (Bacon Akbar)
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To: nhwingut
That (suspect) 22%, um, profit will go to the shareholders. In most cases.

Not necessarily. The benefits/costs of tax cuts/tax hikes are not likely to be borne by only the supplier or only the buyer. Decreasing taxes decreases the marginal cost of producing more goods. It shifts the supply curve to the right. This means more goods supplied, and it also means the market-clearing price will drop, ceterus paribus (assuming a downward sloping demand curve, which is true for everything except stocks).

52 posted on 10/19/2011 1:06:43 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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To: Wilderness Conservative
Wrong! As a retail business owner I would welcome the wider margin and use it to pay down some debt or maybe even afford some other necessities. Lower prices would be the last thing I would do.

So you have no competition?

Say you're in the dry cleaning business, and you have three local competitors. You and two other cleaners decide to "welcome the wider margin and use it to pay down some debt." One of your competitors decides to use it to lower prices on cleaning men's suits (the driving product of dry cleaning sales, btw) to increase his sales volume.

How long do you think it will be before you and the two others that didn't lower prices will lose enough customers that you'll be forced to lower your prices to meet your competitor's?

Businesses don't operate n a vacuum. Competition works every time to lower prices.

Lower prices would be the last thing I would do.

Going out of business would be the last thing you would do. You may not want to lower prices, but if your competition is eating away at your customer base, because they have lowered their prices, you will be forced to lower prices or go under.

53 posted on 10/19/2011 1:07:20 PM PDT by Brookhaven (I oppose an electric border fence, because it might kill the alligators in the moat)
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To: Brookhaven

>> 22% of the retail price of items is due to federal taxes.

Bullshiite.

This premise is unsupportable, and upon it hinges the rest of the analysis.


54 posted on 10/19/2011 1:08:46 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Wilderness Conservative
Lower prices would be the last thing I would do.

And when your competition lowered prices, not lowering prices would be the last thing your business would do.

Competition works. If you could have that large a margin in your revenue stream, you would have already raised your prices that high.

55 posted on 10/19/2011 1:08:56 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Brookhaven

Cain is for the Fair tax and should say so... something like...

I’m for the Fair Tax. but it will take time to get rid of the 16th Amendment. We need help Immediately, and 9-9-9 is my first phase which will have almost immediate results.

that’s how I’D say it.


56 posted on 10/19/2011 1:09:34 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (islam ... Cult of the DAMNED!!!)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

“Wrong! As a retail business owner I would welcome the wider margin and use it to pay down some debt or maybe even afford some other necessities. Lower prices would be the last thing I would do.”

OK. Keep your prices the same. I’ll buy from your competitor
Who will go out of business first? You or your competitor?


57 posted on 10/19/2011 1:11:02 PM PDT by steveab (When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
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To: Elendur

**...the people who MOST hate replacing corporate tax
with a sales tax

...are the CHINESE !!!**

and LIBERALS (which is getting Harder to tell apart)


58 posted on 10/19/2011 1:11:15 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (islam ... Cult of the DAMNED!!!)
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To: Brookhaven

As this thread will amply demonstrate, people are motivated by a very shallow sense of self-interest and are either too intellectually lazy to evaluate a new idea or are simply intellectually incapable of evaluating a new idea.


59 posted on 10/19/2011 1:12:40 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Lazlo in PA

There is no way to explain it. It’s the wrong idea at the wrong time. Supposedly the Cain team is talking about ditching the sales tax. Duh.


60 posted on 10/19/2011 1:12:50 PM PDT by Huck (TAX TEA NOW==SUPPORT 9-9-9!)
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