Herman Cain gets his 999 plan from video game Sim City?, page
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reply posted on 13-10-2011 @ 11:41 PM by subfab
reply to post by jimrat201


i wonder how long it will be before someone equates "9 9 9" to "6 6 6"?

since i play killzone, i should be secretary of state.

ha ha ha

on a serious note: the more the media allows cain, romney and the rest of them talk, the more likely ron paul will get the republican nod. the nonsense these candidates spew will escalate to nothing more than a daily show punchline. this is just my opinion based on observation.

-subfab


reply posted on 14-10-2011 @ 12:39 AM by ownbestenemy
Originally posted by subfab
reply to post by jimrat201


i wonder how long it will be before someone equates "9 9 9" to "6 6 6"?


You are a couple days late. The ingenious Michelle Bachmann already did that during the debate. No contesting his numbers, no questions how it would work...just plain pandering to what is left of her base.


reply posted on 14-10-2011 @ 12:42 AM by eLPresidente
reply to post by Alxandro


You're being sarcastic right?

You do know his 999 plan was drafted by a wells fargo branch office employee that graduated with a BA in accounting...

We need real economists (preferably austrian economists) drafting national economic plans...
edit on 14-10-2011 by eLPresidente because: (no reason given)



reply posted on 14-10-2011 @ 08:48 AM by Aim64C
reply to post by eLPresidente


It is, really, a very simple problem to solve.

Remove all unconstitutional spending. That will leave the Military and spending on roads/infrastructure, as well as a few regulatory agencies and the IRS.

That instantly puts us into a surplus budget and removes social security deductions.

The following year, remove federal income tax, switching to a sales tax with a prebate on sustenance spending at the poverty level going to all citizens of legal age.

The year following that, enact a five-year plan to dissolve the Federal Reserve and shear off GSEs (like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) from government support. Begin phasing in a new currency backed by a metal standard (silver, gold, etc).

People make this # far more complicated than it needs to be. The problem is we are spending far too much and our currency is worth nothing more than the paper it is printed on while the Federal Reserve undermines the free banking principle and excessive lending creates market bubbles out the whazoo.

If 'welfare' programs are an immovable subject and people must have them - being on welfare must disqualify you from participating in popular votes as it represents a conflict of interest (you cannot honestly vote when the representatives and policies you are voting on have the capacity to give you a higher standard of living).

reply to post by IndieA


My girlfriend plays the game. She remembered the 999 tax plan from the game and when I asked her about it she said when you start a new game the first thing you should do is raise them to 10%.

Why was I not surprised? Sarcastically I said "Why stop there"?


The game can be fairly unforgiving. Since you are, in effect, God to this city (only... restricted to tax revenues), there are a lot of things that are made your responsibility (and bill) that shouldn't. Raising taxes is one way to collect revenue - but you'll quickly start losing businesses and people to tax if you raise it too high (12% or higher usually starts pissing people off to a noticeable amount - though going below 8% also seems to have noticeably improved growth rates).

You need to grow and expand to increase revenues and to... you know... play the game (not much fun to just sit there and watch a few blocks and some farmland for hours on end). Which also increases the stress on hospitals and schools (and all #ing hell starts breaking loose when that one little clinic you forgot about is trying to serve a block of sky-scraping apartment complexes - or when vandals start setting # on fire because you've been away trying to get the teachers to stop striking while police have been under-funded).

There are many ways and strategies to play the game... but when you start running low on funds - raising taxes never really works out as a long term strategy - the decline in businesses and populations (even from just a fraction of a percent) usually seems to match up, eventually, to any gains you had from raising taxes. So, it's really best used as a short-term deal to meet a pressing concern (such as a tornado just came through and pulverized your water distribution system - and now it's the end of the world because your financial adviser is screaming mad at your public works adviser for needing to spend money).
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