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To: steve harris who wrote (103168)	10/17/2011 6:42:41 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

How does that respond to the issues raised in the article? Are you suggesting that Obama is in league with Goldman Sachs and that every former Goldman Sachs employee can be considered a bad person? Because if so, Bush made a GS person head of the Treasury.

To: steve harris who wrote (103168)	10/17/2011 6:44:23 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

9-9-9: Herman Cain's tax plan exists in another world By Kim Geiger Washington Bureau October 17, 2011, 2:13 p.m. When Herman Cain first revealed his "9-9-9" tax plan, it sparked instant speculation that the former pizza chain executive might have been applying pizza marketing techniques to his campaign for president. But then the Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel discovered another possible inspiration: The video game SimCity4. The game allows players to create virtual cities and build the rules for their virtual societies. The default tax plan bears a striking resemblance to Cain’s 9-9-9 plan: a 9% housing tax, a 9% commercial tax and a 9% industrial tax. (Cain’s plan would impose a 9% personal income tax, a 9% business tax and a 9% sales tax.) The similarity was met with enthusiasm by the game’s maker, Electronic Arts, which is now offering it at a special sale price of $9.99, Terkel reported Monday. EA also put out a video that features Sim-style versions of Cain, President Obama, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry. “Your 9-9-9 plan? Not so fast, Mr. Cain,” it says. “… the 9-9-9 is a video game plan.” “The original SimCity invited gamers to build a more perfect society,” the company said in a news release posted to its website last week. “You could zone land at will, weave hyper-efficient power grids, and make the trains run on time with a few strategic clicks. For truly skilled tacticians, even Godzilla was just a bump in the road on the way to Utopia. Maybe that’s why it comes as no great surprise to see that part of SimCity 4’s aspirational framework — the “999” tax plan — finally has some real world political converts.” read more............. latimes.com