[broken_arrow1]

50% of America pays no taxes. Screw you NPR

[abigailsmybaby]

Good. It’s about time the freeloaders had a stake in the expenses the rest of us have been for.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How ironic: National Public Radio - taxpayer supported media opining on taxes.

[mylife]

I just heard this reported on ABC news too.

[GatorGirl]

Independent, Brookings Institution, and Urban Institute don’t go together.

[ex-snook]

Cain is joking about 999.

[Tax-chick]

I don’t know that this 9-9-9 plan is the best way to go about it, but I applaud the goal of getting some contributions to Federal tax revenue from those who are currently paying none.

If Mr. Cain is a wise man, he will lay out what he wants the plan to achieve, and ask for suggestions from the best-intentioned of his critics.

[Aliska]

Nobody has said anything yet about the IRS probably not taking too kindly being eliminated, lots of vested interests there. Wouldn't be total, certain core workers.

The part I don't get is the national sales tax. What might I buy that would incur a national sales tax? It's all a state tax, and I heard Cain acknowledge that state tax wouldn't change and would be in addition to 999 taxes.

[God luvs America]

here’s their report card on the stimuloss...can anyone make heads or tails of this??

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/411830_senate_stimulus_reportcard.pdf

[Atlas Sneezed]

those making $20,000 to $30,000 would see a $3,800 (15 percent) tax increase.

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This presumably ignores the repeal of the payroll tax, as well as the price reductions in goods due to the reduction of embedded taxes.

[goseminoles]

Illegals and welfare moochers will begin paying federal tax. What’s so difficult to understand???

[RobbyS]

Cut taxes for WHICH rich guy? Not for the head of General Electric. The rich are accomplished tax dodgers.

[federal__reserve]

Seems like the right direction to me.. We might even catch up with China & India who are creating more NEW millionaires than we are, currently.

[justsaynomore]

I highly recommend people crunch the numbers themselves:

http://raisingcain2012.wordpress.com/about/

A lot of people end up pretty surprised at what they find.

Also, there is a sales tax calculator:

http://999calculator.net

[org.whodat]

Love these, let's have a group hug for the IRS. As Mark Liven would say, idiots.

[wac3rd]

NPR. The mouthpiece of the Regime and Global Communism.

These maggots love to lie.

[Randy Larsen]

Millionaires cannot escape the 9% sales tax no matter how hard they try.

999 works for me.

[commish]

The first detailed analysis of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan found that it would cut taxes for Americans making $200,000 or more a year and raise taxes for those making less than $200,000 a year.

COMPLETE UTTER TOTAL FALSEHOOD! I ran the numbers (and yes I am pimping a vanity in responding) and show clearly that a person making $90000 a year will see a benefit of around $3500-$6500 LESS TAXES.

This study apparently was just on INCOME TAXES and does not take into account that things like FICA, Mediscare, Unemployment insurance etc will go away.

My tax rate will go from 20.18% to 9% and I will have around $6500 more in disposable income and even if I spend all of it, thereby paying the 9% sales tax on every cent I will still have $3600 more buying power at my disposal under 9-9-9.

Last time I checked 90000 is much much less than 200000, which makes this study pure unadulterated BULLSHIITE!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2794438/posts

[Little Ray]

Cool. ‘Bout time the “poor” paid their “fair share.”