I may have said this before, but it bears repeating: If it weren’t for the real and terrifying possibility that Herman Cain will be the next president of the United States, he would be the most comical character in the GOP circus. You would think that his comments about
Tony Krvaric - He's no Julian Assange
Uzbekistan (“No, I don’t know who the president of You beki beki beki stan stan is, and I don’t care about all these insignificant little countries.”) would end his bid, but Republican voters weren’t bothered by that a bit. So, he doesn’t know what’s going on in the world? So, he acts arrogantly toward smaller nations? They love that shit.
Of course, when you have Rick Santorum saying “I want to go to war with China” (exact words), it’s pretty hard to be the craziest one in the party, but the Pizza Man is giving it a fair go. Now comes the news that his famous 999 tax plan (9% corporate income tax, 9% personal income tax, 9% sales tax) was probably borrowed from a 2003 version of the computer game SimCity.
I don’t object to a simplified tax plan. Ross Perot (the Ron Paul of the 90s) suggested that a long time ago, and I agreed with him. Whatever sytem of taxes we use, he said, it should all fit on one sheet of paper and you shouldn’t need an accountant to figure it out. Makes sense.
Nor do I object to borrowing from a computer game. I once read (again I’m paraphrasing) “Don’t reject a good idea just because it comes from a bad source.” I thought, ‘Hey, I just read this in the Reader’s Digest. QED.’
What I object to is that it’s a horrible plan, which hits the poor much harder than the rich, and is doomed to failure, because poor people don’t have that much money. It worked in SimCity because that’s not a real city and the numbers don’t actually have to match up.
Kip Katsarelis, an executive for the company that makes SimCity, said “Our game design team thought that an easy to understand taxation system would allow players to focus on building their cities and have fun thwarting giant lizard attacks, rather than be buried by overly complex financial systems.”
The other evil Republican I want to talk about tonight is Tony Krvaric chairman of the San Diego County Republican party. He apparently thought it was funny to have twitter accounts under a bunch of different names – names of San Diego Democrats. When he got caught, he just said ‘haha, I thought it was funny.’ Did I mention that he is the San Diego County Republican chairman, and not a 13 year old child?
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