Have you ever in your life tried to express your thoughts in one sentence, I really doubt it. They could not use Neal’s plan, so they pulled together a similar plan to it. All of which is unimportant, the important part is Mr Cain was willing to be the man and put forth real change. Now we have the me too stuff, from the little boy, coming forward.
Why not? It's a plan. Why can't they say "We love Neal's plan, so if I'm elected, I'll push to enact Neal's plan into law"? I've never heard of a plan you aren't allowed to use. And I can't believe Neal refuses to let the government enact his plan.
Rick Perry published a book in 2010 which discussed the flat tax and other good consevative ideas. Now that he has entered the run for President, I expect to see several of those ideas become parts of his campaign platform.
Of course, Romney had a 150-page plan. Cain isn't the only one to put out a plan; and I guess each voter can decide if putting out a plan you don't support, and plan to replace later with the plan you DO support, because the first plan is politically popular and the second might not be, makes you a "man".
I don't particularly like Fairtax, nor do I want to spend a lot of time in the next two years debating an overhaul of the tax code. It's not the thing stopping our economic growth, and I wish everybody would focus on THAT, not the next step after that. But I wouldn't vote AGAINST someone because I think their plan is wrong-headed, like 9-9-9, because I figure it will never pass anyway, at least not with the things in it that are bad.