Political Test

Republicans have long attacked Keynesian economics and now apparently have their own version: Cainsian economics.

Upon enactment, the world’s biggest economy would be guided by the kind of tax reform that is music to the ears of many Tea Partiers based upon simplicity itself.

If Herman Cain is elected President, here’s how he’d want the tax code readjusted:

9% corporate taxes

9% income taxes

9% national sales tax

But, as the self-styled Sage of Tax Law, Representative Michelle Bachmann, cleverly pointed out: “…the Devil’s in the details” and turned upside down, the number would be 666.

The Mark of the Beast.

The Anti-Christ.

I must admit that my head is spinning.

We all know that Mrs. Bachmann is running for President because she prayed for His guidance and He gave her the sense it was her purpose in life.  Are we to assume from that calling that perhaps God himself once again spake, something like “Beware the Mark of the Beast” and she got the sense He wanted her to turn 999 upside down so she could identify the Beast?

Heavens to Murgatroyd!

He seems like such a likable fellow so maybe it wasn’t the Lord Representative Bachmann heard, just more voices inside her head.

But, back to Mr. Cain who seems to be taking the Republican electorate by storm.

Great smile, happy warrior of the Far Right.

Better yet, a man with a plan to make America great again.

999

Yea for Herman and the birth of Cainsian Economics!

Now, this is tax reform we can all believe in because the Man with the Smile assures us it is “revenue neutral.”

That’s comforting.

Still, something is nagging at me.

Can’t quite put my finger on it.

Maybe it has something to do with a reality check.

You see, for 80% of Americans, their federal taxes will be driven up like fireworks on the Fourth of July.

Of course, because it is revenue neutral, there has to be an offset to attain that condition, so his yin and yang of neutrality is made up by some tax savings for neediest of Americans: the top 20% of Americans besieged by class warfare.

They will receive tax savings equivalent to the tax increases for the 80% of Americans who don’t work as hard as they do, aren’t as smart as them, and who whine way too much.

Hmmm.

Maybe Bachmann’s onto something.

666