This article is an example of the vulnerability of the media. They purposely left out the 6.5% SS tax the employer pays for you. Add that in and the example turns into a $500 tax savings. There are enough alternatie outlets to shout out and expose this. There are a lot of brain dead voters who won't hear, but they were never going to vote Republican anyway. The majority of voters are awake an listening.
Google what happened to Forbes who had a perfectly sensible flat tax plan. Had we instituted his plan, we would not be in this territory of total corruption. Nevertheless, the media fried him on very simple math: comparing the taxes paid by a millionarie at 10% versus the taxes paid by someone earning $30,000 per year.
The media ran the line that Forbes was for taxing the poor at the same rate he wants to tax the rich. No matter how much we protested and tried to teach the public how to do a precent caculation, Forbes was left in the dust in the polls.
Cain’s supporters don’t seem to want to deal with the reality of politics. I hate the constant deception. But it is reality in our Teachers’ Union education nation.