You do realize, don't you, that the reason 999 is controversial -- from a Democrat and Michele Bachmann point of view (see my well-justified slam of Bachmann at #76) -- is that it taxes people who previously paid NO taxes? Zero taxes?
That most of these people were not taxpayers AT ALL?
That in fact, most of them get a check from the the rest of us every year called the Earned Income Tax Credit?
999 changes all that. Leading Dems and some GOPers with diarrhea of the mouth (see link above) to say "it hurts the poor the most."
I think your comment about reparations is in poor taste. But regardless, it's simply not well-founded. Making people pay something, when they were paying nothing, is not a new way to reward them.
Flat tax we all pay the same rate. 9-9-9 we don't. The lower middle class suburbanite loses his deductions and gets a 9% income tax increase and a 9% sales tax increase. The inner city Empowerment Zone occupant doesn't pay that same rate, does not see his income tax go up.
Imagine Rick Perry advocating special tax rates for white suburban zones, everyone would go nuts, and they would be right to do so. Cain gets away with it and I know why but I wont tell.
Imagine no unions or minimum wage and special tax breaks to move business to predominately white neighborhoods.
That most of these people were not taxpayers AT ALL?
Mmm-hmm ...that's the claim. Until he makes exceptions for that very group of people.
"poor taste" comments? That's about all I see in FR these days.
Maybe it's catching.
Oh, and normy's last post is exactly right.