Remember this when your 9-9-9 plan turns into higher and higher sales taxes. Trust me, it will. You can count on it.
I understand the concerns. Taxes are hard to be applied evenly.
I believe that is what Santorum said, also.
Once again, what's to prevent a future congress from raising the current income tax rates, corporate tax rates and capital gains tax rates to 90%? Please think about it for a minute. There is a lot more to this than 9% being added to your bill at the store. If corporate taxes are lowered 26% then prices will fall drastically. If the loopholes are gone then fair competition will cause prices to fall even further. If income taxes are lowered to 9% then taxpayers will have more money to spend. If income taxes and capital gains taxes are lowered to 9% then businesses will grow, expand, export and pay more employees more money. It's not a 9% increase in prices, it's a 20%-30% decrease.