“What’s to stop the CURRENT Congress, or any in the future, from raising the income tax? The Medicare tax? The Social Security tax? The sales tax? The gas tax?”
It is much easier to tweak (raise) existing tax than to create totally new tax.
The point is that I contend in principle, there is no way that raising any of the components of Cain’s plan would be easier than raising any of the current tax components. I believe it would actually be more difficult because the simplicity of Cain’s plan would mean that a raise in any one of the components would be a lot more obvious as compared to a “stealth” increase like we see in property taxes, gas taxes, and so on.
Thank you for giving the lie to everyone of your attack posts on 9-9-9. You just admitted there that your complaints about 9-9-9 are completely baseless.