I already spent waaaaaay too much time on FR today.
Did you read the excerpt I posted?
“Part of Mr. Cain’s appeal is his willingness to challenge political convention, and he certainly has with his tax proposal. Voters like that he isn’t a lifetime politician but a successful business owner who has met a payroll and created jobs. But his endorsement of a sales tax on top of the income tax is a political gamble that would eventually finance an even larger entitlement state. Better to reform the devil we know — the income tax — than to introduce another devil and end up with ever-rising rates of both.”
He is going to eliminate all the deductions and exceptions, then the tax rates can start and continue to rise. Remember, the income tax started as 1% ON THE RICH. making over $1 million, when that was real money and look where we are now.
Opening the door to both income tax and sales tax is handing the government the key to your house to rob you blind.
Complete nonsense
The same argument being placed here applies even more so to the current system. There is nothing to stop the current tax rates being hiked 20-50-80%
This argument is completely without any rational merit. It is the desperate flailing around by the status quo bots desperate to keep the current political crony rewarding tax system in place.
Every complaint being levied at the Cain plan is even more relevant to the current corrupt failed tax system.
Raising tax rates is actually harder under 9-9-9 since everyone pays so it is impossible to hide tax hikes as being only “on business” or “on the rich”
No tax system will ever be perfect. 9-9-9 elminated most of the current failed corrupt flaws in the current system while adding NO new flaws.
Arguing, as this author is, that we should cling to our current failed system because any replacement will not be absolutely perfect is childish and irrational.
You didn't post the part that explained that the current income tax would be replaced with a 9% flat tax.
If you want to argue against the plan on the basis that the rates might raise in the future, that's not as powerful an argument, but at least it's an honest argument.
If you have to mislead and obfuscate to support your position, is it position worth supporting?