Pizza
Face
 Herman
Cain, pizza mogul and flavor-of-the-week presidential
candidate, is fun in a football-to-the-groin kind of
way, and not just because he whined that those mean
old black people are bigoted because they don't appreciate
his genius.
His
main
claim to infotainment fame is a plan he's conceived
to save the economy, one which he
refers to as the "9-9-9" plan. This is shorthand
for "9 percent for commercial taxes, 9 percent
for industrial taxes and 9 percent for residential
taxes."
Oddly enough, that's exactly what SimCity 4, a
video game from 2003, implemented for the residents
of its virtual environment.
Yes, a video game.
Those numbers have, as you might expect, enervated
the "20 minutes or it's free" crowd but economists
are pretty certain that it would double
the effective tax rate of the middle class.
For the record, Mr. Cain didn't steal think
this up all by himself as he claims he had the help
of a whole team of
economists. However, the
only one he'll identify by name is Rich Lowrie, who
isn't so much of an economist as a "wealth management
consultant". Yes, presumably there are rich people
too dumb to handle their own money, as though that
could
EVER
be a problem, and Mr. Lowrie is Johnny-on-the-spot
to tell them which crooked bank will maximize those
screw-the-poor-people
profits.
Most intriguingly, he was on the board of advisors
for Americans for Prosperity, one of the many and varied
conservative advocacy groups funded by Charles and
David Koch.
The Koch brothers
are the same, ludicrously rich, walking gonads who
financially backed the Tea Party or, for that manner,
any fruitcake
that wants to run for public office as long as they're
willing to open their gobs and unapolgetically spew
whatever lunatic talking point the brothers dream up.
You know,
like, "create
jobs by lowering corporate taxes", or "bartering
chickens for health care", them sort of horse-squeezin's.
The brothers seem to have a political viewpoint they
dearly would like the voting public to clasp to their
collective bosoms, especially considering the vast
sums they've
spent
putting their surrogates in office. One would therefore
imagine that they should simply cut to the chase, run
for office themselves, and get it over with.
Oh, wait. David Koch tried that and got his derriere
handed to him. Something about being an arrogant prick,
I'd wager.
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OWS Goodness:
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Republican Job Creation Update
 "We're
going to have a relentless focus on creating
jobs." -
John Boehner, February 10, 2011.
The following is #97 in a list of Republican
job creation activities
since they gained control of the House in
2011. None, sad to
say,
have
yet to result in one, single new job.
(97) 10-14-2011: The GOP wasted the day voting on a redundant anti-abortion
bill that would doom pregnant women to a horrible
death. They took this purely symbolic vote just to waste more time.
On the bright side, the GOP unveiled a jobs
bills... if by "jobs" you mean destroying the environment, excising
unions, off-shoring jobs, and making the rich even richer. This bill, accroding
to many, would
actually
result in the loss of existing jobs.
NOTE: As a result of an unexpected wave of enthusiasm
the Republican
Job Creation update now has its
own web site. It will remain on the RP but a
web site of its own will raise its visibility
on the 'net as
we progress towards the critical 2012 elections.
And I thank you for your support.
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