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And if its cruel to tax peoples food why is it heavenly for leftists to drive energy costs through the roof in the name of their global warming cult, which in turn dramatically drives up the price of food and everything else due to increased fertilizer costs and increased costs of operating farm equipment and increased transportation costs, etc etc etc

Again, ideological asswipe with no basis in fact, and flies in the face of fact, per usual, have you seen gas prices? It puts the lie to your rantings.

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The centerpiece of former pizza czar Herman Cain’s presidential campaign is his “999″ plan, which would slash taxes on the wealthy, drive up deficits to the worst point since World War II, and force low-income Americans to pay a massive nine times their current tax rate. In an interview this morning with CNN’s Candy Crowley, Cain even said food and clothing would not be exempt from the 9 percent national sales tax he would put in place if elected

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And if its cruel to tax peoples food why is it heavenly for leftists to drive energy costs through the roof in the name of their global warming cult, which in turn dramatically drives up the price of food and everything else due to increased fertilizer costs and increased costs of operating farm equipment and increased transportation costs, etc etc etc

Increased energy costs and government regulation also discourage corporations from bringing jobs here, further hurting the poor

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And Cain's 999 can easily become 101010. 

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Increased oil costs.

nuff said

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The centerpiece of former pizza czar Herman Cain’s presidential campaign is his “999″ plan, which would slash taxes on the wealthy, drive up deficits to the worst point since World War II, and force low-income Americans to pay a massive nine times their current tax rate. In an interview this morning with CNN’s Candy Crowley, Cain even said food and clothing would not be exempt from the 9 percent national sales tax he would put in place if elected

Since Herman Cain is already being framed by conservative and liberal analysts alike as the "black man"  they will scare Obama into jousting with and lure SOME black voters they'll hope to keep once Romney takes the reigns after a few states... I think we will pretty much never know. And why so  many GOP people think they can go with Romney and have a shitload of Christian Right voters stay home is a puzzle to me, since they can't win on a scratch ticket without them. Romney is a Mormon Boogeyman to a lot of them. I was actually surprised how many.

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Peak oil and global warming, while peripherally related because they both have to do with burning fossil fuels, are hardly the same issue, peak oil is a supply and demand issue, and on the S&D curve, increasing demand and dwindling supply = higher price that's just called economics, what you and scamity doing is called "agitprop".

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They'll cut him off at the knees, I mean they had a viable Black candidate, Colin Powell, and they wasted no time sandbagging his Black ass.

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Romney is, in my opinion, the GOP's version of Kerry. Re that to mean, destined to lose.

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.....Only two states, Mississippi and Alabama, charge sales tax on food......

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Increased oil costs.

nuff said

And why are oil costs higher? Because all the easy oil has been pumped dry already?

Peak oil and global warming, while peripherally related because they both have to do with burning fossil fuels, are hardly the same issue, peak oil is a supply and demand issue, and on the S&D curve, increasing demand and dwindling supply = higher price that's just called economics, what you and scamity doing is called "agitprop".

I'm starting to think you both know a little more about PR and marketing than you let on - then again, maybe you are that dumb.

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Speaking of which Taz, I live in an energy economy, the Permian Basin where we've lost 4000 jobs over the last three years due to lower oil prices - people here would love to see the price of oil go up.

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Yes, I can read. I understand what you're saying but the supporting information is incorrect. I don't know where you got it. It's wrong.

People have been preaching a flat tax type of system for a long time. Maybe it will eventually take hold, I don't know. I do know that any tax system will account for those at the very bottom. Shrug. You and I both know that and proposed change would end up looking nothing like the original proposal.

The bigger question to me isn't fear-mongering with numbers that would never see the light of day in practice, but whether the idea has merit or not. I don't know that it does. I do know however, that part of your quote above is extremely inaccurate.

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Yeah, but Sans claims it's because of liberals - maybe because they're using so much liquid potpourri or something, I dunno.