miguel: please note that right now it will also take one session of congress to raise the current income tax rates to percent they want. while your observation is correct that the congress can take one session to change the tax rate, they find it hard to actually doing it. not that the 9-9-9 plan is a perfect plan, but here is the difference. with the current 67000 page tax code (created by so many special ineterest groups)there is plenty of room for people to legally hide their income or take advetage of the legal loop holes. but with the 9-9-9 or any other kind of flat rate plan, those loop holes are eliminated.

maybe herman cain did steal the idea, but we can give him credit for the humongous black market that 9-9-9 will create. we can cal it the cain market. i will buy everything i use front the hundreds of thousands of roadside vendors that will spring up. when our state of florida created its 7% sales tax, it was not because they actually needed that amount. it was settled at 7% because they thought any more would create rebellion and back door cash sales. add 9% to that and we have rebellion. it will take just one session of congress to alter his plan to .5% corporate, 28% personal and 21% sales tax. 99% too big to fail!!