RE: These “vigilant” people haven’t been terribly effective in preventing the income tax and payroll tax from mushrooming to levels far higher than those initially promised by the politicians who championed these levies.
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Well, if we can’t depend on the vigilance of American people to keep a check on their government, then EVEN WITHOUT the 9-9-9 plan, we’re doomed anyway.
ANY PLAN, be it Romney’s or Gingrich’s or anyone else’s can be defaced by any future Congress no matter how good it looks in the beginning.
‘Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty’ (Thomas Jefferson).
If we can’t depend on this, then WE’RE SCREWED BIG TIME.
“If we can’t depend on this, then WE’RE SCREWED BIG TIME.”
Fair point. But a) strictly speaking, Cain’s plan is unconstitutional. The federal government is not constitutionally permitted to levy a sales tax. The only reason an income tax is allowed is because of the 16th amendment; b) leaving aside constitutional constraints, I’d be comfortable with Cain’s plan if and only if we first repealed the 16th amendment and then also passed a balanced budget amendment that capped total government spending at some reasonable fraction of GDP (e.g., 25% for F, S, L sounds nice). Otherwise, the criticism of several of the candidates last night is correct: Cain’s plan simply opens up 2 new massive spigots of federal revenue.