National sales tax is a Pandora’s Box I’d rather not open as long as there’s the income tax and the 16th amendment in effect.
While Cain is likable, this right now is the main thing of his that keeps me from putting a lawn sign of his on my property. That’s not to say I won’t vote for him in the primary considering who is still in the race by the time my primary comes around (which is June, so it may well be a settled matter anyway), but the 9-9-9 plan as it stands is currently a deal-breaker for me.
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 eliminates 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.