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What is to prevent the next regime from making it the 20-20-20 plan?
Right now I lose 10% of my gross to the feds. No rugrats, and a paid for house. 10%. With 999 I give up another 9% in VAT, and through some sort of black magic all my purchases are alleged to drop by more than 9% No way to insure any of that, but the 9% "bite" is for real.
When canada went to the PST/GST mess, retailers jacked prices a couple of percent to cover the added costs of collecting that tax. Same thing would happen with 999.
I simply have no faith that a VAT will not become an added revenue that the demonrats can play games with.
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Using what "the next guy" might do as an argument is complete and utter bullshit.
Might as well say "Obama wants Hope and Change - but what happens if the next guy doesn't?"
Does it change anything about the candidate and his platform? No.
Does it change anything that the next guy, or the next Congress, might do? No.
Does it change the MERIT of Cain's argument in any way? No.
Then why does this logical fallacy keep popping up in reference ONLY to Cain's ideas and virtually no one's elses? As if "what the next guy" might do has any relevancy whatsoever...