Contrast Perry’s flat tax with Cain’s 9-9-9 plan. Parts of the plan—such as requiring two-thirds congressional approval to raise taxes—are clearly unconstitutional. Other parts—such as taxing state and local governments—are likely unconstitutional.Even if modified to make it constitutional, 9-9-9 is not conservative. It creates the risk of permanently burning the candle at both ends with an income tax and a European-style value-added tax. And it either imposes punitive taxes on the poor, or makes then forever beholden to the central government with monthly “prebate” checks.
It's bad enough that Cain wants to bailout the inner cities which will empower the same corrupt Democrats that destroyed them in the first place. It's atrocious that Cain felt it necessary to call in the Black/"African American" race card in selling the Land of OZ. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/13/ebo.01.html
I believe in empowerment zones. Most of the unemployed black Americans in this country are in these mostly economically depressed areas. It could be, and I'm only using this as an example, because we haven't finished establishing the parameters yet. Instead of in a designated empowerment zone, it being 9-9-9, it could be, as an example only, 3-3-3.What this does, because you have a lot of African-Americans located in cities like Detroit, disproportionately, it would encourage businesses to stay in business there or to move there. It would encourage people to work there, because if you live in the empowerment zone, you're going to pay a smaller percentage in taxes.
You still haven’t pointed me to anywhere in Mr. Blackwell’s article where he discusses the fact that Perry’s plan is a hybrid of flat tax/Fedzilla code.