Cain’s 9-9-9 plan seems scarily ill-conceived, as per this Economix piece:
Bruce Bartlett: Inside the Cain Tax Plan – NYTimes.com.
That the leading Republican candidate (even if it won’t last, of course), is for not one, but two major tax system overhauls, resulting in a fair tax of 30% on all goods and services and vast increases of the deficit is quite remarkable.