Co-Author of 9-9-9 Plan Says Cain Should Dump National Sales Tax

Co-Author of 9-9-9 Plan Says Cain Should Dump National Sales Tax
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One of the key economists who helped Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain draft his 9-9-9 tax plan is backing away from its most controversial component. Economist Stephen Moore said the criticism Cain endured during the GOP presidential debate Tuesday night shows his proposed 9 percent national sales tax might have to go, reports Fox News.
Cain weathered a storm of complaints over his tax plan at the debate in Las Vegas. Virtually every candidate took turns accusing him of pushing a scheme that would introduce new streams of revenue and hit the middle class hardest.
Moore said the debate further confirms his belief that the candidate should strip the sales tax out of his plan and replace it with a 9 percent payroll tax.
“They wouldn’t be able to attack it,” Moore told FoxNews.com. “If he had done that a week ago, then they wouldn’t be able to attack the plan last night.”
Moore said he likes the sales tax idea and thinks it would be “rocket fuel for the economy,” but explained that it’s just too much of a punching bag.
Moore first raised the idea of changing the Cain plan during an interview over the weekend on economist Larry Kudlow’s radio show.

Wild Thing’s comment……
Cain is not a bad man, and he can work on his plan if he feels it is necessary. Like I mentioned before I am not a Cain supporter but I am not anti-Cain. I just think Perry is a better candidate on every level.
Being President, holding the highest office in the land and it used to be the most powerful office in the world, That matters to me and it takes a special person to handle it, to listen to we the people, to have substance and experience as a leader.