[flintsilver7]

So in the absolute worst case, Cain’s plan would be no different than the system we have today. Congress has that authority RIGHT NOW. They don’t do it because it’s political suicide.

Hell, even with both houses of Congress and the Presidency they didn’t raise taxes via the expiration of the Bush tax rates. That should tell you something.

Walter Mondale ran on higher taxes. How’d that work out for him?

[Beagle8U]

Without an amendment to the Constitution getting rid of the 16th, Cain would accomplish nothing but sticking us with a new sales tax, that would NEVER go away!

Cain turned himself into the 999 plan, and once people crunch their own numbers ( how it effects them) it will crash and burn and Cain with it.