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Herman Cain Gets Defensive Over 999 Tax Plan (Now that he's surging, the scrutiny comes)
Christian Post ^ | 10/10/2011 | Stephanie Samuels

Posted on 10/10/2011 6:46:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Drew68
Obama won block by block....First, he had to wrangle the black block away from Hillary. Then the hispanic block...then bite into blocks like NOW, Planned Parenthood, AARP....

I'm sure Hillary is still befuddled how she could have lost to a clean and articulate???? black man with basically "0" experience.

The Dem party put blinders on and pulkled the lever. They can all rot in hell. They gave us an incompetant piece of cr**. Shame on them!!

81 posted on 10/10/2011 8:29:55 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Twinkie
Phase 1 - 9-9-9

Current circumstances call for bolder action.

The Phase 1 Enhanced Plan incorporates the features of Phase One and gets us a step closer to Phase two.

I call on the Super Committee to pass the Phase 1 Enhanced Plan along with their spending cut package.

The Phase 1 Enhanced Plan unites Flat Tax supporters with Fair tax supporters.

Achieves the broadest possible tax base along with the lowest possible rate of 9%.

It ends the Payroll Tax completely – a permanent holiday!

Zero capital gains tax

Ends the Death Tax.

Eliminates double taxation of dividends

Business Flat Tax – 9%

Gross income less all investments, all purchases from other businesses and all dividends paid to shareholders.

Empowerment Zones will offer additional deductions for payroll employed in the zone.

Individual Flat Tax – 9%.

Gross income less charitable deductions.

Empowerment Zones will offer additional deductions for those living and/or working in the zone.

National Sales Tax – 9%.

This gets the Fair Tax off the sidelines and into the game.

Phase 2 – The Fair Tax

Amidst a backdrop of the economic boom created by the Phase 1 Enhanced Plan, I will begin the process of educating the American people on the benefits of continuing the next step to the Fair Tax.

The Fair Tax would ultimately replace individual and corporate income taxes.

It would make it possible to end the IRS as we know it.

The Fair Tax makes our exported goods and services the most competitively internationally than any other tax system.

Phase 1 Enhanced Plan – Summary

Unites all tax payers so we all pay income taxes and no one pays payroll taxes

Provides the least incentive to evade taxes and the fewest opportunities to do so

Lifts a $430 billion dead-weight burden on the economy due to compliance, enforcement, collection, etc.

Is fair, neutral, transparent, and efficient

Ends nearly all deductions and special interest favors

Ends all payroll taxes

Ends the Death Tax

Features zero tax on capital gains and repatriated profits

Lowest marginal rates on production

Allows immediate expensing of business investments

Eliminates double taxation of dividends

Increases capital formation. Capital per worker drives productivity and wage growth

Capital formation will aid capital availability for small businesses

Features a platform to launch properly structured Empowerment Zones to revitalize our inner cities

We all know the Fed has tripled the money supply since 2008. They have been printing money out of thin air to finance the Obama spending machine. While true Fed reform that restores sound money may have to wait for my election, the best thing we can do now is to pursue policies that increase the DEMAND for dollars to help mitigate the risks associated with the increase in the supply.

Pro-growth economic policies equal a strong dollar policy

http://www.hermancain.com/999plan

82 posted on 10/10/2011 8:30:10 AM PDT by luckybogey
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To: Sacajaweau

My understanding is there are no exemptions except for Charitable donations. However, it is rarely pointed out that there is no sales tax on used items. So if you buy a used car-no tax. By a washer off Craigs List- no tax. That would create a huge secondary market for used goods which would profit everyone.


83 posted on 10/10/2011 8:30:42 AM PDT by TN4Bush
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To: samtheman
Again, inexperience hurts. We’re looking at it in action.

Hmmmm....

Pizza is Cain's biggest selling point. He says his track record running Godfather’s Pizza, a chain that once billed itself as "the cure for the pizza emergency," shows he has the ability to run the country. The 620-store chain was on the brink of bankruptcy when he arrived in 1986, he says, and he "turned it around with common-sense business principles."

A PolitiFact examination of Godfather’s, based on interviews with industry analysts and company officials, shows Cain is largely correct. The chain wasn’t literally preparing paperwork for bankruptcy, but it was widely considered troubled. Cain changed that by uniting the franchisees, overhauling the chain's advertising, and getting his team focused on its core mission: pizza.

Henderson said Cain succeeded because he immersed himself in all aspects of the business and wasn’t afraid to get his hands into the dough.

Cain is still considered, at best, a longshot for winning the presidency. He’s been asked several times why he’s running, since he doesn’t have any experience. Cain has a standard reply that he seems to enjoy delivering.

"Well, all the people in Washington, D.C., they’ve held office before. How’s that working for you?"

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/jun/10/did-herman-cain-turn-around-godfathers-pizza/

Inexperience? I doubt that.
84 posted on 10/10/2011 8:33:07 AM PDT by wasp69 (space for rent)
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To: TN4Bush

The bottom line is....This 9-9-9 plan isn’t going to happen.....PERIOD.


85 posted on 10/10/2011 8:36:40 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ilgipper

If I understand this correctly, only new goods would be taxed. So if you buy a used car, house, or anything else, the 9% sales tax would not apply, right?


86 posted on 10/10/2011 8:40:44 AM PDT by Raebie (WS)
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To: SeekAndFind
Herman Cain: “If 10% is good enough for God, then 9% should be just fine for the Federal Government.”

AMEN!

87 posted on 10/10/2011 8:50:45 AM PDT by frogjerk (Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore. - HAZLITT)
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To: wasp69
Pizza is Cain's biggest selling point.
Exactly. That's quite a jump, from Pizza to the WH.

I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying his hurdles are immense.

88 posted on 10/10/2011 8:54:49 AM PDT by samtheman (Palin. In your heart you know she's right.)
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To: SeekAndFind
U.S. Census, 9-9-9 will be short some $300 Billion of current revenue if implemented

So? Considering we have increased annual Fed spending by over $2 trillion in the last 3 years, finding $300 billion to cut would be easy.

89 posted on 10/10/2011 9:00:51 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Sacajaweau
The bottom line is....This 9-9-9 plan isn’t going to happen.....PERIOD

Right which is why you waste all your time racing around from thread to thread trash talking it.

90 posted on 10/10/2011 9:02:16 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: rarestia
Thus, anyone with state income AND sales taxes would be screwed under this plan.

No they would not since all the other forms of Fed taxation, direct, and indirect, would have gone away under 9-9-9.

91 posted on 10/10/2011 9:04:23 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: SeekAndFind
9-9-9 will be short some $300 Billion of current revenue if implemented.

And that would be a good thing.

However, that conclusion is likely based on a static analysis. That type of approach always underestimates tax revenue after a cut in tax rates.

I didn't see enough in this article to know how the calculations were done to make a decision for or against this plan. I am in opposition to a national sales tax that doesn't also put a constitutional limit on both the max income tax and max sales tax.

92 posted on 10/10/2011 9:06:51 AM PDT by slowhandluke (It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
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To: SeekAndFind
We should not be voting for any candidate without looking into whether the plan he proposes

I agree. And I really would like to see Romney and Perry's plans.

But I guess, being professional politicians, all they have to do is give nice speeches, not actually present a Presidential agenda.

Apparently only the non professionals like Cain have to present actual plans and ideas.

93 posted on 10/10/2011 9:08:57 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: rarestia

Corporations might come back but it will kill the small business owners. My husband was self employed and I went back and looked at some of the returns and in the year 2006 under the Cain plan we would have paid 4750.00 more in taxes because of the deductions taken away and in small business it is reported on your personal income taxes. So it will kill small businesses and they employ a lot of people


94 posted on 10/10/2011 9:10:24 AM PDT by thePing
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To: MNJohnnie

Right, but the 9-9-9 is a Federal plan. If States still have income and sales taxes, they’ll be in addition to Fed taxes, no?


95 posted on 10/10/2011 9:12:43 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Sacajaweau; samtheman
One of the businesses he was CEO was not as profitable as they wished. Solutiobn

You two sure you are at the right website? You are both posting boiler plate leftist dogma here

Rather then turn the company around and save it from bankruptcy by laying off some people, you two would rather he end up bankrupting the company. Odd how you over look the fact that would of been forcing EVERYONE into the unemployment line.

Sounds like you two would be way more comfortable at Democrat Underground then any Conservative website

96 posted on 10/10/2011 9:12:58 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: rarestia

Sure, but it eliminates all the direct, and indirect, Fed taxes you pay. To claim it adds to your existing burden is incorrect because you would be paying less Federal taxes over all.


97 posted on 10/10/2011 9:14:14 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: thePing
paid 4750.00 more in taxes

No it would not because you would not be paying your current corp tax rate plus your FICA/medicare contributions under 9-9-9.

9-9-9 doesn't add to your existing tax burden. You have to figure out how much less you would pay in other Fed taxes not just add it to your existing taxes

98 posted on 10/10/2011 9:16:40 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah that conservative “think tank” University of New Mexico.... LOL!

I would love to see the details of this study and WHO were the investigators. Furthermore, the University of New Mexico is not the Holly Grail of business schools.

So the University of Mexico believes the current communist Progressive tax code is better. LOL!

OF COURSE THEY WOULD! NO SURPRISE AT ALL...


99 posted on 10/10/2011 9:18:06 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: heiss
To 17 - Exactly right. Any overhaul of the tax system, whether a flat or sales tax, will soon see rates go up thanks to those in the Parliament of Whores (h/t PJ O'Rourke).
A Constitutional amendment would be the only way to stop these reprobates from raising the %.
100 posted on 10/10/2011 9:18:52 AM PDT by jla (Who says Perry's a conservative? - Rush, Inhofe, Levin & Sowell do.)
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