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Jon Huntsman Zings Herman Cain: ‘I Thought [9-9-9] Was The Price Of A Pizza’

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Tonight’s Bloomberg/Washington Post economic debate presented an entirely different format– “kitchen table”– and with Charlie Rose manning the ship, promised to be issues-oriented and steer clear of the personal. But that doesn’t mean it took long for the fireworks to start, though they did come from an unexpected corner of the table: Jon Huntsman, who got Herman Cain fired up by dismissing his “9-9-9″ tax plan as “the price of a pizza.”

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It was the second joke for Huntsman of the night, the first earning only an uncomfortable sidelong glance from Rick Perry. Making the obvious “9-9-9″ pizza joke and dismissing it as a “catchy phrase” did elicit laughter from the crowd, but not from Cain, who delivered a fiery response. “9-9-9 will pass– it is not the price of a pizza– because it is well studied and well developed,” Cain responded, arguing that the key to the plan was that it would “throw out the old tax code.”

The exchange via Bloomberg TV below:

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  • Michelle

    Huntsman tries too hard to have a witty one liner in each debate and usually fails miserably. 

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    Jon Huntsman must be applying for the job of court jester in Cain’s administration.

  • Anonymous

    Michele Bachmann had a better zinger (paraphrasing): turn 999 upside and you’ll see the devil is in the details.

    There’s a song in here somewhere…

    999 is a joke!

  • Anonymous

    It seems like Romney and Cain have formed an alliance to vote Parry off the island.

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  • Anonymous

    Huntsman acts like a bi**hy little girl. He is as snarky as Obama is. I’d rather have Romney than Huntsman any day of the week.

  • Sarah

    it fails with that crowd. works with me lol

  • http://twitter.com/WorldDivider Mark Prior

    Huntsman sure is funny it’s working for him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    Oh Huntsman you so funny but seriously, who told you that joke?

  • NeverWrong

    Huntsman, Perry and Santorum just keep shooting themselves in the foot and have no chance of winning the Repub nomination.

  • Anonymous

    Every time Huntsman makes a joke, all I hear are crickets.  How did you all enjoy his religion jab at Parry?

    Po’ thang… bless his heart… he’s tryin’

  • NDanielson

    That’s better than liberal clowns, Jon. They think it’s the sign of the devil…Upside down. But, funny enough, they were pretty adamant that Barry is not the anti-christ. Go figure, Jon!

  • NDanielson

    Po’ thang… bless his heart… he’s tryin’

    I have to axe, shouldn’t that be, “he be tryin”?

  • Tedderman

    Actually the nine-nine-nine plan was first proposed more than forty years ago by one Colonel Klink.  He attempted to impart it to Sgt. Schlutz or perhaps it was Ed Schlutz but it never really caught on regardless.

  • Guyoxim

    667. The Neighbor of the Beast

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    So, Huntsman is campaigning to be court jester of the US of A. He should fit right in for the fact he is another Obama lite RINO.

  • Guyoxim

    So you disagree? You believe Barry IS the antichrist? And liberals don’t think its the sign of the devil, but Michelle Bachmann does.

  • Dankenton

    A silly tax plan for a silly girl (that’d be you Mich).  Cain’s plan is a tax INCREASE on many Americans (no, not just those that don’t pay now) and fails to foot which is why no authority, except pizza man, has endorsed it.  I won’t mention the giveaways to churches he’s planning…whoops.   

  • Anonymous

    Dat aint funny! Now Hunts man is funny! He’s are fav-o-rit crazee Mormon!

  • Anonymous

    your endless ebonics, black, blackest man win jokes never get old

    (sarc)

  • Tim Tebow

    If you have a coupon, you can get a large for $7. 99!

    But when you taste the pizza, you’ll feel like you got ripped off.

  • Tim Tebow

    But it’s $10.49 with anchovies.

  • Tim Tebow

    Wit is right there with intelligence in the GOP field: MISSING!

  • Tim Tebow

    Time for dinner, Sparky!

    Momma’s callin’ you…!

  • Tim Tebow

    Your pizza prophet got stung on that one, didn’t he?

    And now you’re hurting, too.

  • Anonymous

    Awwwww…but I ain’t hungry!

  • Tex45

    The Romney/Cain ticket is starting to evolve.

  • Onne

    Cain is Romney’s stalking horse to take out Perry. His reward is the No. 2 spot. 

  • Anonymous

    easily amused?

  • Anonymous

    Actually it is a tax decrease on all.  Everyone already pays 15.4% FICA taxes that would be replaced by 9%.

    Say you work a minimum wage job (here in WA State it is $8.75/hr) for 40 hours a week.  That would be $700 gross income every two weeks.  Under FICA, $107.80 is taken out of your paycheck; however, under 999, only $63 is taken out of your paycheck ($44.80 difference).

    If you spend $150 on food every two weeks (I spend about $110), an additional $13.50 in federal taxes is taken out of the $44.80 difference (for a total net gain of $31.30).  You can spend extra $28 before breaking even every two weeks.  I know when I was making minimum wage, I wasn’t spending much on anything besides rent, phone, food, and gas.  I would have loved the extra $30 a month.

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    To wit is to know as to Tim is to Tebow or to blow.

  • Anonymous

    The GOP will be a bigger joke if they choose Cain as their Man, this triple 9, crap is utter rubbish.That kind of talk might go down well at the Pizza house, but not in the real world.  

  • Anonymous

    Every time Perry talks he votes himself off the island, this guy is dumber than than painted rock.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: The biggest joke is Obama and OWS losers wanting America to follow Greece with socialism!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Huntsman’s joke was when he was asked how he would get people to work and he said that his brother took over his dads company and that was the background that makes him qualified to create jobs!

  • http://twitter.com/mdcdnmf Matthew

    What about sales tax on rent, gas for your car, taking your girlfriend out for dinner.. minimum wage people usually live paycheck to paycheck, with no details out you have to assume that the 9% is on everything, so those that spend their whole pay check actually end up paying 18%. The rich who don’t spend their whole paycheck will pay somewhere between 9% and 18% but those rich that do make a significant amount of their pay through capital gains will pay much less than 9% of their income as capital gains under Herman will not be taxed. Sounds pretty fair…

  • Anonymous

    Tax on rent? Are you serious?

    Anyway, if you really want to know more, then read about it. The Fair Tax and Flat Tax plans have been out there for years. The 9-9-9 plan is a form of the two.:

    https://www.hermancain.com/999plan

    I’m not that excited about a possible Cain nomination, but I have read a lot about these tax plans and they make a lot of sense.

  • Chayal Boded

    Yeah, he kinda jumped the shark with that one.

  • Anonymous

    First of all, that is not how percentages work.Secondly, Cain has already stated there will be “empowerment zones”, which will be categories of items that will not be taxed (they will be out in the next couple of weeks). Finally, it is fair because the “rich” spend much more on new items than the poor so they will get taxed at a higher rate.

  • Dankenton

    @twitter-96898162:disqus ediacracy:  It must be your birthday because I’m going to give you a gift: the truth.  NOBODY pays 15.3% in FICA taxes because that is the COMBINED number paid by businesses AND wage earners.  Historically, individuals pay 7.65% but Obama passed a 2% tax reduction on the SS portion so today individuals pay ONLY 5.65% while businesses pay their full 7.65%  Don’t believe me?  Just look at your paycheck and see for yourself unless you don’t pay FICA by being covered by a state plan….grab a friend’s instead.  Don’t listen to politicians, Fox News or semi-functional retards like FedUpInFlorida who seem to want to perpetuate this myth of 15.3%.  
    Therefore, Cain would be adding an additional 3.35% in Federal taxes to many wage earners on top of a 9% increase in sales tax.  And, unless you live in one of the five states that don’t charge sales tax, you now are paying around 20% in sales tax…a regressive tax.

    Happy Birthday!

  • http://twitter.com/mdcdnmf Matthew

    You say its not how percentages work however the calculation works out very close to 18% when you consider that the whole paycheck is spent on items that have sales tax which we must assume all items do at this point with no details out. The empowerment zones seem to suggest they are about living in a particular location like the inner city and apply to INCOME tax not the sales tax. Finally it does not matter what the rich decide to buy with their pay, new items or not. The question is will they live paycheck to paycheck and consume the whole amount? Not Likely. Therefore looking at their income from a dollar earned to a dollar going to the government, they will pay less of a PERCENT of their income than the middle class or the poor.

  • http://twitter.com/mdcdnmf Matthew

    Why not. Start off assuming that the government is coming for your money. I have not seen any list of exemptions in his sales tax plan.

  • AliveStillKickin

    If Obama is re-elected….9-9-9 will be the price of the pepperoni.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Care to back up that ridiculous claim with some facts?

    I didn’t think so.

    Libtards and talking points…..no substance….just bullsh*t.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Please elaborate……
    I don’t get it if it’s supposed to be a joke.

  • Anonymous

    999 will pass about the time 666 shows up.

  • Anonymous

    Tuesday night’s exchange between Romney and Perry boiled down to Mitt’s mitt tagging Perry repeatedly and Perry was very restrained! I think he uses too much hair dye and he couldn’t hear the questions! He kept referring to jobs in Texas that Big Oil produced and the 20% jobs that were governmental jobs that Perry had nothing to do with! The eight on stage continue their marketing of the president and each time they mention his name he gets publicity. The New Hampshire debate seemed the same as the others because they tried out their zingers and were more mellow than expected. Bachmann looked so old tonight! She tried her best to one up the others and tested some catch phrases but cratered again! This over sight Perry talked about is and was by appointees and close confidants in the Texas Legislature! That’s a warped wrap! Again president Obama won because they talked more about doing away with ObamaCare and his leadership abilities than any other thing except Cain’s 9-9-9 plan! They tried all of their sound bites and the crowd was very quiet as to listen to what they really wanted to say! The “Deer in the headlights” was felled by seven other deer running to get out of the way. President Obama gained more from their comments than they realize! Bachmann fell off the stage as she couldn’t say “ObamaCare” enough tonight and everyone on stage railed against Dodd-Frank! The TEA party led and infused Republican/GOP party are fighting the Sarbanes Oxley act of 2002 and the Frank Dodd Act because these two acts provide guidelines and restrictions put into place resulting from the recession of 2007 and 2008! There were major corporate and accounting scandals like Enron and Worldcom which cost investors billions. The Frank Dodd Act provided a sweeping overhaul of America’s financial regulatory system to consolidate agencies, regulate financial markets, implement consumer protection, provide financial crisis tools for the FDIC and improving accounting processes and tightening credit rating regulations.

  • Anonymous

    Huntsman would do better running for the Democrats, he just strikes me as being one of those people.

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