It's either that or a middle class family in Iowa wants to pay a few thousand dollars more in taxes while the rich get a big tax break. It's one of the frustrating things about Republican campaign that has become all about personalities and scandals. The details about the impact of Cain's plan will come out in the Republican primary, I can't imagine what'll happen to Cain's numbers then.
Research-group reviews of the plan have found that most families making $100,000 or less would pay thousands of dollars more each year. “The larger point is that people don’t really understand what the 9-9-9 plan actually is, and they’re assuming incorrectly that they may not pay one or any of these taxes,” said Joe Rosenberg, a research associate for the Tax Policy Center, a group based in Washington, D.C., that bills itself as a nonpartisan economic research institute.