Posted on 10/23/2011 4:57:25 PM PDT by JOHN W K
It’s gotta be Perry...
“Giving the administration and Congress another tool to tax us and confuse us is like giving an alcoholic a key to the liquor store with no supervision, only to discover that he locks the door after he is safely inside.”
Herman Cain 2010 (His words regarding national sales tax)
Let us make a more simple argument
http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com/2011/10/good-man-bad-plan.html
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I like Herman Cain
I think Cain is the best candidate in the race for the nomination.
I do see that he is inexperienced with politics and he can talk too much when asked a simple question. The “journalists” will let him ramble, he’ll say something sooner or later that can be twisted and taken out of context. That is what leftist journalists do to conservatives.
His 999/909 plan is stupid though and his “opportunity zones” is un-American as far as I am concerned, I will explain that.
First, let me restate, I like Herman Cain. I think I was the first one to use the slogan “Cain Vs Unable”, for instance.
Let me explain why I don’t like the tax plan he put forward.
Somebody call 999!
This plan requires the creation of a brand new tax, a national sales tax. This will give the federal government yet another revenue stream to tap into. As a conservative that alone bugs me to no end. Plus he says the plan is “revenue neutral”, which is not a positive if you ask me, the government takes far too much money out of the economy as it is.
A simple flat tax would be preferable. Would President Cain sign a true flat tax should it pass Congress? I think so.
Opportunity Zone comes knocking
Why should the federal government give special regulatory breaks to “zones”? If it good enough to help depressed areas, then it is good to help the whole freaking country! If he proposed eliminating harmful regulations permanently for the entire country we could see the economy boom. Why propose a plan that would simply encourage your job to be moved to places like Detroit? Pretty much because that is where the African-Americans are, this is known as “pandering”. If you want to pander for votes, pander to the whole country!
Who will decide where “zones” will be? A new bureaucracy.
Who decides the criteria? Who will process the applications from cities and states wanting to be declared or keep their status as “zones”? Will they have to fall on their knees before the federal emperor? A new bureaucracy.
Why is Herman Cain, a conservative, proposing a new federal bureaucracy that will literally enforce discriminatory regulatory policies??
If his idea is good enough for Detroit, then it is good enough for every single square inch of this country!
I still like Herman Cain, though.
Cain is a “Washington Establishment Hobson?s Choice candidate”
Who knew ???
So who’s paying you Mittins or Perry ?
News Flash.... the constitution was killed in 1937
What part of 9% corporate tax(instead of 35% with a bunch of hidden taxes), 9% personal income tax(instead of our complex system of death tax, medicare, medicaid and personal income tax) and 9% national sales tax (since corporations dont have to spend 400 billion a year filling out tax forms prices will drop)and COMPLETELY THROWING OUT THE PRESENT TAX CODE do you not understand???
Ravenstar
Does this mean RP is just not doing so well.................
Sooo, I hope you find your rocker soon.
Totally out of context and ill informed. He was talking about a national sales tax ON TOP OF THE EXISTING TAX CODE DUH DUH DUH!
He’s been a FAIR TAX proponent for over a decade for crying out loud.
“I think as President he would sign a flat tax if it came to his desk.”
I think a consumption tax is the only way to go... Sorry.
We already have a national sales tax on phone bills, tires, cig’s, alcohol...and more. So what do you mean a brand new federal tax? There should be sales taxes and import taxes and NEVER a tax on income just as the founders had it.
You are correct in that Herman Cain's plan would add a new tax, and his plan definately has some serious problems that I would like to see corrected. That being said, his plan, or the flat tax proposed by Perry and Gingrich, would remove the Social Security and Medicare taxes which Congress likes to pretend are separate from the general revenues. It would also remove capital gains taxes and 10,000,000 words from the current tax code. The people who should fear his plan most are tax attorneys, accountants, lobbyists and tax preparers. All those people would need job training when their industries disappeared. And that's not a bad thing.
JWK
Those who reject abiding by the intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was agree to, [u]as those intentions and beliefs may be documented from historical records,[/u] wish to remove the anchor and rudder of our constitutional system so they may then be free to “interpret” the Constitution to mean whatever they wish it to mean.
LOL, love the photo, Thanks for the post!!!
Ravenstar
JWK
Those who reject abiding by the intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was agree to, [u]as those intentions and beliefs may be documented from historical records,[/u] wish to remove the anchor and rudder of our constitutional system so they may then be free to “interpret” the Constitution to mean whatever they wish it to mean.
Play with this. The string can be rolled up slowly.
I don’t like the carve outs for Detroit or the folks under the poverty line either, but overall it’s not a bad plan - and this attack hit piece is totally mumbo jumbo.
Well, two of those "nines" are flat taxes.
I’m still voting for Cain.
Betcha Rush will too. Nice try, RINOmney supporter.
Congress has always had the power to tax sales. Sales taxes and tariffs were the original plan. They could easily be made uniform. Property and Capitation taxes would be more difficult to enact because they had to be apportioned. Any item imported into a state could only be taxed by the federal government until the Constitution was torn up after the Civil War.
You need to get your facts straight.
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