It seems Levin went off on a bee in a bonnet as well, gushing about the mini-me flat tax part of the plan, without seemingly realizing or having a care in the world about the disaster of leaving the Fedzilla tax code in place.
Something tells me that the penny's going to drop for Rush and Mark very soon. When it does, I expect to hear a "wait just a doggone minute..."
At least I hope that's the case. I respect both of them a great deal, and expect better from them.
I just don’t understand how they miss this — both of them!
Also they don’t seem to be focusing at all on tax reform except in economic terms.
I am convinced that tax reform is basically our last chance to preserve our freedom. It is the only way to immediately get more people as stakeholders in the tax system. Which is the only way to immediately stave off the growth of the parasite class to over 50%, at which time it would be GAME OVER.
This freedom rationale is and must be paramount.
In a way, I view tax reform as our first shot at entitlement reform. We have to reform those policies that make almost 50% of our population “entitled” to contribute no taxes to the federal system.
Cain’s plan does that. I don’t see the Perry plan doing that at all. It rearranges the deck chairs very nicely for present taxpayers. But it does nothing to broaden the tax base, i.e. ultimately make most nontaxpayers into taxpayers.
How Rush and Levin have missed this elephant in the room, I don’t know.
(Although Rush seems quite distracted and sometimes like he’s phoning in it over the last months.)
I wonder if Hannity is getting it.