Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is seeking to pull her recent poll numbers in the Republican presidential primary back into double digits, levied the toughest criticism toward businessman Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan in the Bloomberg GOP presidential debate Tuesday, saying it could be the devil’s doings.
“When you take the 9-9-9 plan and you turn it upside down, the devil is in the details,” Bachmann said in New Hampshire Tuesday.
Bachmann was referring to the fact that if 9-9-9 is turned upside down, it becomes 6-6-6, the numbers most often associated with Satan and the mark of the beast.
Cain’s single-digit numerical plan would combine a 9 percent flat-rate income tax with a 9 percent national sales tax and 9 percent corporate income tax. While the phrase may sound catchy, budget analysts are saying the numbers don’t add up enough to lift the nation’s balance sheet back into the black.
The Minnesota congresswoman was not the only critic of Cain’s tax plan. Fellow GOP front-runner Mitt Romney told Cain that sometimes, simple answers aren’t enough.
Cain’s attacks weren’t limited to just Republicans. Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden said the 9-9-9 plan would place a greater burden on middle-income taxpayers.
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