[GeronL]

Think of the bureaucracy needed to monitor, administer, decide who gets to be, decide what the criteria is for these “zones” whose purpose will be to encourage your job to move to places like Detroit.

insane.

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The 999/909 plan should die, just on the idea of a new federal tax monstrosity alone.

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If Cain says he’d sign a flat tax from Congress, then he’d be the perfect candidate.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I think that setting everyone's deduction at the poverty level and then taxing everything else at the same flat rate would make for a fair, equitable, easy-to-administer tax.

If Cain's plan morphed into something like that I would be all for it.