Herman Cain is polling at 5.5 percent among Republicans. But he won a straw poll — which can fairly be described as a buy-your-vote Republican beauty contest — so we have to take him seriously.
That’s the only explanation I have for NPR’s news feature on Herman Cain’s marketing cum tax plan, a menu of ridiculous tax proposals that have nothing to do with growth.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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