One Perspective on Cain’s 9-9-9 Tax Plan

At a minimum, the Cain plan is a distributional monstrosity. The poor would pay more while the rich would have their taxes cut, with no guarantee that economic growth will increase and good reason to believe that the budget deficit will increase. . . . Mr. Cain’s tax plan stands out as exceptionally ill conceived.

~ Bruce Bartlett, former George W. Bush economic policy adviser