In Herman Cain's Writings, a Startling Lack of Foresight

Time Magazine ^ | Oct 16, 2011 | Mark Benjamin

[Clairity]

And you thought Romney is the only flip-flopper...

[SatinDoll]

Cain has yet to be elected to office, unlike Romney who governs like a socialist and talks like a conservative Mormon.

[Raymann]

And what exactly has he flip-flopped on?

Or can you not tell the difference between Cain’s proposal and a VAT?

[mkmensinger]

Let’s compare Cain’s writings with Obama’s writings prior to running for president...oh, wait...we can’t because the’re sequestered. Never mind.

[ilgipper]

A VAT and sales tax are not the same thing. Cain has long been a Fair tax champion.

Next....

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The paper trail Obama left, prior to taking the Presidency, contains no examples of lack of foresight.

Oh, wait a minute. What's that you say? Obama left zero paper trail, prior to taking the Presidency.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Time Magazine, that paragon of Conservative thought.

[gaijin]

Oh no, Time magazine hates Cain. Guess I can’t vote for him now...!

(This just makes me like him MORE)

[USNBandit]

If one wonders if a sales tax can be raised you have to look no further than your local sales tax. Where I live there isn't any silly expenditure for which the liberals can't think another .25% on the sales tax is the solution.

The flip side is that there is a huge difference between a VAT and a retail sales tax.

[Redleg Duke]

Ah, the Romneybot is busy today, doing what liberals are so good at, trashing their opposition.

I guess that is all you can do when your guy has nothing to run on.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Spin, Perrywinkles, spin. Did Herman Cain give illegal aliens preference over citizens?

[gov_bean_ counter]

I'm guessing the Dems were not proposing to REDUCE the personal and business income tax to 9% at the same time either. Context seems lost on some people...

[Erik Latranyi]

And you thought Romney is the only flip-flopper...

No, but you are selling your integrity in an attempt to bloody up Cain!

[jimnm]

Cain: “The worst idea is a proposed national sales tax, which is a disguised VAT (value added tax) on top of everything we already pay in federal taxes.”

Cain is noting that the proposed tax is a national sales tax, not a VAT, but then tries to call it a disguised VAT. People on here get upset when posters call Cain’s proposal a VAT. Apparently, Cain also thinks the two are fairly similar although they are not.

So yes, he’s flip flopping.

[edpc]

A sales tax is on the final product, paid by the consumer. A VAT is a totally different animal, paid by each vendor responsible for the production. It ends up being calculated into the price at each step and makes the product more expensive for the consumer.

They're not even close to being the same.

[SamAdams76]

Nice try but the Democrats were proposing a sales tax on top of all the other taxes already in place. Cain’s plan is to completely replace the existing 70,000+ page tax code with three very simple and transparent taxes that will be very difficult to raise because the people will immediately notice.

[mazda77]

Just an insight to the true Clarity. Sounds more like a Democrap mole troublemaker who can offer no redeeming positive values for Romney but sure has a bucket load of negativity for Cain. Typical Alinski tactics of divide and conquer.

A Democrat would not care to understand the difference between a “replacement” sales tax and a VAT.

[behzinlea]

"The worst idea is a proposed national sales tax," Cain wrote. A 9% national sales tax is now one of Cain's three nines.

LOL! You just cain't make this stuff up. Wait a minute. Cain can. Cain is constantly making stuff up and goes along, pulling it out of his nether regions so the Cainiacs can praise him for his common sense and striaght talk.

So he was against the sales tax before he was for it. He was for electrocuting Mexicans at the border before he decided it was a joke. He was for Romney and praised him as a conservative before he was against Romney and decided he was a liberal.

To be fair, he HAS been completely consistent in his praise for Alan Greenspan and his support of TARP.

If this gig doesn't work out for him, he could always emigrate to Ubeki beki beki stan stan.

[Recovering_Democrat]

In at least one column, Cain seemed to condemn a proposal that is now a pillar of his highly touted 9-9-9 tax plan. On November 12, 2010, Cain wrote a column about rumors that Democrats would propose a consumption tax called a VAT. "The worst idea is a proposed national sales tax," Cain wrote. A 9% national sales tax is now one of Cain's three nines.

Oh, I am supposed to trust some assclown from TIME magazine? I'm bettin' Cain was making the point a VAT should not be added to the current tax code.

What I am certain about is that the TIME magazine hack (former employer of Hussein's spokesdork Carney) isn't quoting things IN CONTEXT....because of course we all know the TIME HACK is probably a racist who hates black people...unless their name is Hussein.

[Marie]

A VAT is not a retail sales tax.

You know the difference.

Why are you putting out false information?