Herman Cain's tax plan

[ltfred]

Oct 16, 2011 18:57:43 GMT -5 Old Viking said:

I once put a quarter into savings.

It's probably worth a few billion by now. Compounding interest, don't you know.

[VirtualStranger]

Here, have a graph

www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/ezra-klein/StandingArt/Average-tax-change-from-9-9-9-plan-10-18-2011-OPT.jpg?uuid=QRY0DvpcEeCAMtfdh-994g

And a chart, too.

taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/displayatab.cfm?Docid=3222&DocTypeID=2

[big_electron]

Someone pointed out, I think someone from Huffington Post, that Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan resembles the tax code of SimCity games.

EDIT to add video of Cain himself:

[priestling]

That was also noted earlier here in the thread.

[askold]

As usual reading the cartoonists comments on the comic is helpful. (Especially with filibustercartoons, sometimes the only way to understand the comic is to read the 27 paragraphs underneath it.)

www.filibustercartoons.com/index.php/2011/10/15/cain-meets-canada/

[big_electron]

Oct 19, 2011 23:28:57 GMT -5 priestling said:

That was also noted earlier here in the thread.

"That's a LIE!"

EDIT to emphasize the word "LIE", just like Cain himself.