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The facts about Herman Cain's cancer claim and 9-9-9 tax plan There aren't a lot of specifics about Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan, but here's one thing you can say for sure: It's easy to remember.
Cain would scrap the current tax system and replace it with a 9 percent personal income tax, a 9 percent corporate income tax and a 9 percent national sales tax. It's got the kind of simplicity that could threaten the job security of more than a few tax lawyers.
Our writer Aaron Sharockman took a look at what's known about the plan and wrote this interesting overview.
Also, many readers asked us to check Cain's claim from last week's debate that he would have died of cancer under "Obamacare." We checked his claim that as a patient of liver and colon cancer, "If we had been on 'Obamacare' and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when I could get that CAT scan, that would have delayed my treatment." We rated that False.
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