This proposal starts a discussion.
The final legislation is not determined by the POTUS.
Agreed. Cain deserves some credit for his willingness to go out on a limb and start a real discussion. No other candidate has shown the guts to do so.
That is a *very* good point.
This is the reason he doesn't believe we can go straight to the Fair Tax. That is going to involve a Constitutional Amendment (to repeal the 16th amendment) and we don't have the public support to go there yet.
I believe that we're also going to need another election cycle (2014) to give us a super-majority in the house and the senate to push through the final, drastic changes and end income tax once and for all
Cain has said, repeatedly, that we have to educate the public on the necessity of this move and estimates that it'll take 2 years, after the implementation of the 999 Plan, to gain the required support. "Once the American people understand it, they'll demand it!"