BTW, while I don’t think it’s any surprise that there would be an income exclusion or standard deduction for an amount at or below the poverty level, if people want to “blame” someone for this, they ought to considering blaming Michele Bachmann.
While I appreciate all Bachmann has done for the conservative movement, her pathetic wailing that 999 with “hurt the poor the most” had to not only get on Cain’s last nerve (as he said in an interview), but it had to make conservatives seriously trying to get major tax reform passed shake their heads and think:
“Good grief. If we’re going to end up taking such potshots from people such as Bachmann on the Right, who supposedly is really in sync with the Tea Party, we have no choice but to parlay to fend off her criticism that only energizes the Left.”
Really: when you have one of the candidates running as an ultra-conservative start wailing Lefty talking points — this “hurts the poor the most”??, with no understanding of how the poor and ALL of us are helped by 999 — what are you supposed to do? Let that stand, and let Bachmann’s ill-advised and ill-founded debate zingers get entrenched and sink the entire effort?
Thanks, Michele. NOT.
Supposedly, this was in the plan from the beginning.
There are also many exemptions for businesses and people working and/or living in "deprived" places like DETROIT! Ergo, the 9-9-9plan is NOT for everyone. And as far as I can tell, welfare and SSI payments will be exempt as well.
This plan has ALWAYS stunk on ice! Cain appears to neither know what is in it and is incapable of explaining it clearly, not to mention the fact that it does keep on changing. Thrown in the fact that presidents do NOT write tax laws ( so it has to originate in the House, get passed there, then get sent to the Senate, revised and passed there, sent back to the House, etc., before it gets to the desk of the president !), so throw out his claim that he will write it so that 2/3 of Congress has to vote before raising the taxes crapola.....that won't ever see the light of day;much less the plan as now stated!
And FWIW............the level at which "poverty level" is set, keeps on going up and up and up.
Well said.
Bachmann has exposed herself. Thank God she imploded as soon as she did.
Every single candidate at that debate tried to demagogue this plan using liberal talking points that sounded like they were written by Media Matters. It’s obvious that Cain is the cream of this crop.