SimCity sure is having fun with this Herman Cain 999 plan thing. Says the Huffington Post:

On Monday afternoon, Electronic Arts will be lowering the price of SimCity games on its website to $9.99 — a $10 discount — for a limited time.

Cain seems to be getting very upset at this good-natured ribbing from SimCity:

“It’s an original idea, and to people who say it’s modeled after a game — it’s a lie,” Cain said during a campaign stop in Tennessee. “That’s all I’m going to say. It is a lie. You see, that’s the difference when you become one or two in the polls. People make up stuff. That is a lie. I’m not going to take it back and not going to politically say, but unfortunately, that is not totally true. It’s a lie.”

25 replies on “Sim City Selling Games for $9.99 in Honor of Herman Cain”

  3. Wow is this guy really so stupid that he takes people comparing his tax plan with a video game seriously?

    Way to shoot yourself in both feet.

  6. I can’t read that quote without hearing Cain’s voice. When he inevitably becomes president his state of the union addresses will at least be entertaining.

  8. And since he refuses to name the “economists” who helped him formulate his 999 idea, he might as well just shout “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.”

  9. @8, I heard that his top econ adviser, the one who came up with the plan, is his bank teller, who doesn’t even have a college degree.

    The man cannot speak English. I’m sorry. But “I’m not going to take it back, and not going to politically say” is just terrible.

  10. This is typical of businessman politicians. So used to the ass sucking sycophants at work, they lose it whenever people refuse to just take them at their word.

  16. Cain’s 9-9-9 plan is yet another big sloppy blowjob for the rich and a gutpunch for the not-rich.

    …under Cain’s plan, a family earning $120,000 a year would see its after-tax disposable income drop by about $500.

    “Basically from that point down, most everybody is worse off, and the further down the income ladder you go, the extent to which a family is worse off under the Cain plan increases dramatically,” says Kleinbard.

    For a family of four earning $50,000 a year, Kleinbard says the hit would be about $5,000 under the 9-9-9 plan.

    Nine percent flat taxes on business and personal income, and a nine percent NATIONAL sales tax. Including on food. Elimination of payroll taxes and the estate tax.

    Your state and local sales taxes would either stay the same or, most likely, be forced down by the national sales tax, further gutting local services.

    The national sales tax would apply to NEW things (houses, cars, food, etc.). The net effect would be to force poorer people away from new cars, homes, and Bellevue Square, and into thrift stores, eBay, etc. Protein and pharmaceuticals recycled from sewage would presumably not be taxed, so there’s that at least.

    Perfectly aimed at all the nitwits who “plan to be rich” in the very near future, but are one paycheck away from the street right now.

    http://www.npr.org/2011/10/17/141427450/…

  17. @#16,
    Good points all, but you actually missed some of the horror:

    Nine percent flat taxes on business and personal income, and a nine percent NATIONAL sales tax

    What you didn’t note is that the “plan” changes the definition of corporate income; until now, wages have been a business expense deductable from the gross income in determining taxable net income. Under Cain’s plan, this is no longer the case. You just became 9% more expensive to employ – and that’s for damn sure coming straight out of your paycheck. So it’s not really a 9% income tax and a vague 9% corporate tax – it’s a flat 18% income tax.

    Note also that the sales tax is likely to apply more than once in the supply chain – so instead of paying 9% sales tax, your total value-added tax may add up to 18% or more.

    Basically, under Cain’s plan, the working poor – who currently pay 15% in payroll taxes, pay no income taxes, and spend every penny they earn – would face a tax bill of at least 27%, likely higher. The middle class, would, as you note, see big tax hikes. People earning big money would see a massive tax cut. And people who inherit big money – Cain’s kids, for example – would see a truly incredible tax cut.

  19. @18 – Why is it hardly mentioned in all these Cain stories that Godfather’s was always the shittiest of shitty pizzas? Political reporters who slogged through Iowa and New Hampshire, of all people should know that Godfather’s was the worst. Not only worse than Dominos or Pizza Hut or Red Baron or Tombstone, but worse than melting velveeta over a ketchup coated slice of Wonder Bread.

    What other mass consumer products have been so objectively shitty and why would anybody associated with it be considered for President by a major party?

  23. @14 – He wants us to live in a crummy arcology? But I’ve always wanted to live in Sheeza Brickhouse. CAIN!!! *raises clenched fists to the air*

  24. @19, “worse than melting velveeta over a ketchup coated slice of Wonder Bread.”

    Dude.
    I laughed, I cried, I threw up in my mouth just a little bit.

  25. #19: But he made a lot of money on that pizza. That’s what counts, just as _someone_’s getting rich off the economy matters much more than however shitty daily life in it may be for some or most or nearly all.

    Calvin and Rand, folks, Calvin and Rand.

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