Cain's 9-9-9 plan comes from SimCity?

[RecycleMichael]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/herman-cain-9-9-9-plan-coming-simcity-160214953.html

Republican presidential candidate and former pizza mogul Herman Cain is taking heat for his 999 tax plan, which would establish a corporate income tax at

Though Cain says his plan would fix the economy, there's some haziness about the plan's origins. Some say Cain got the 9-9-9 idea from the video game SimCity. In SimCity 4, which was released in 2003, residents of the game's virtual city also lived under a 9-9-9 tax plan (because of the 9% commercial, industrial, and residential taxes). Social media is buzzing about the similarity between Cain's tax plan and the video game. When asked about it, a spokesperson for Cain's campaign said, "Well, we all like 9-9-9." But SimCity may not have the best real world applications. A producer of the game 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." On Twitter, @ddisabatino said, "Herman Cain took his tax plan from Sim City. Also, got war strategy from Halo, and music skills from Guitar Hero."

[Gaspar]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/herman-cain-9-9-9-plan-coming-simcity-160214953.html

Republican presidential candidate and former pizza mogul Herman Cain is taking heat for his 999 tax plan, which would establish a corporate income tax at

Though Cain says his plan would fix the economy, there's some haziness about the plan's origins. Some say Cain got the 9-9-9 idea from the video game SimCity. In SimCity 4, which was released in 2003, residents of the game's virtual city also lived under a 9-9-9 tax plan (because of the 9% commercial, industrial, and residential taxes). Social media is buzzing about the similarity between Cain's tax plan and the video game. When asked about it, a spokesperson for Cain's campaign said, "Well, we all like 9-9-9." But SimCity may not have the best real world applications. A producer of the game 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." On Twitter, @ddisabatino said, "Herman Cain took his tax plan from Sim City. Also, got war strategy from Halo, and music skills from Guitar Hero."

That's a stretch since the tax algorithm in Sim City is based on a continuous "usage" tax system where each block is taxed according to density at each turn of the game.

The only similarity is that there are three taxes: Residential, Commercial, and Industrial.

[Conan71]

That's a stretch since the tax algorithm in Sim City is based on a continuous "usage" tax system where each block is taxed according to density at each turn of the game.

The only similarity is that there are three taxes: Residential, Commercial, and Industrial.

Wow! That's high geek!

[Gaspar]

Wow! That's high geek!

Wasted youth.

[sgrizzle]

Obviously Cain wasn't smart enough to know what you had to enter to get the negative tax rate.

[Gaspar]

Obviously Cain wasn't smart enough to know what you had to enter to get the negative tax rate.

LOL! No one is going to get that.

[Teatownclown]

Sim City.....isn't that the game where you build a stadium and it sucks the tax base down and shrivels up the infrastructure budget and jobs go elsewhere due to street congestion and pollution? Some liberal must have developed it's parameters.