I freaking KNEW it!
There is now way that a plan that taxes seniors would be put out there!
What I’m *hoping* they do is make it so that NOBODY pays taxes on the first $25,000.
It stays fair, but helps out the poor and middle class.
Now if people can get it through their thick heads that they won’t be paying MORE with the 9% sales tax, we’ll be in business.
only 34% of seniors have their SS benefits taxed anyways. That means that 66% of them are going to get a 9% tax increase on everything they buy.
I am not looking at whether we pay more or not in the long run. I am looking at the fact that Cain is adding federal empowerment zones and federal enterprise zones to the 999 plan, and that is taking our new national sales tax and directing it to expanded federal entitlements to low income families that live in minority urban neighborhoods.
That is a severe problem expanding the federal government like that when we are trying to reign in federal spending for welfare and social programs as it is! Plus adding the enterprise and empowerment zones back into federal government control, we are giving the federal government additional power to direct and administer more federal entitlements of their choice.
Not conservative, and they need to be put back into Bill Clinton’s and Al Gore’s closet where they were and where they should still be.