Herman Cain says he wouldn’t apply the 9% flat tax of his “9-9-9” tax plan for those at or below the poverty line. The move followed criticism that the flat tax portion of the plan would unfairly punish the poorest of Americans.
Yet the Washington Post is reporting that the elimination of the middle 9 doesn’t quite fix the problem. “Poor families would see a smaller tax increase than they otherwise would see, but they will still see a tax increase,” they quote Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center.
The Tax Policy Center released an analysis earlier this week that criticized the 9-9-9 plan as raising taxes on 84% of Americans while lowering them for only the richest households.
