WASHINGTON — On Friday, Herman Cain responded to The Huffington Post’s analysis of the similarities between his “999″ economic plan and the default tax rate in “SimCity 4,” saying he did not get the idea from the video game.
In a video aired Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” a reporter asked Cain whether he had spent some time in the world of arcologies and flying lizards. “You said you had original ideas, successful people around you thinking ideas up,” the reporter said while questioning Cain about the “999″ plan. “Is it an original idea or modeled after a game?”
“It’s an original idea, and for people to say it’s modeled after a game — it’s a lie,” Cain said during a campaign stop in Tennessee. “That’s all I’m going to say. It is a lie. You see, that’s the difference when you become one or two in the polls. People make up stuff. That is a lie. I’m not going to take it back and not going to politically say — but unfortunately that is not totally true. It’s a lie.”
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