The answer to the complicated tax system is the flat tax. Why can’t we simply it? (Below is an article from Dan Mitchell’s blog http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/ .)
Everything that’s Wrong with the Tax System, in a Single Picture
December 19, 2012 by Dan Mitchell
I used to think this image was a damning indictment of the internal revenue code. Or here’s another chart showing how the tax system has become more convoluted over time.
But this new image may be the most effective of all of them. We don’t know what’s in the other 72,000 pages of tax code, but we’re all familiar with the basic 1040 tax form. Look at what the politicians have done to it over the past several decades.
The only answer, needless to say, is to throw the entire mess in the trash can and replace it with a simple and fair flat tax.
Here’s my brief explanation of how the flat tax would work and why it’s a good idea.
The Flat Tax: How it Works and Why it is Good for America
Uploaded on Mar 29, 2010
This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video shows how the flat tax would benefit families and businesses, and also explains how this simple and fair system would boost economic growth and eliminate the special-interest corruption of the internal revenue code. http://www.freedomandprosperity.org
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Tax reform would give us more growth, but it also would reduce one of the major source of corruption in Washington.
It’s also based on the notion that discrimination is wrong and that class-warfare policy should be rejected.
So what’s not to like?
P.S. I always get a lot of email and comments from people who wonder whether we should adopt a national sales tax instead. That’s fine with me, for reasons I explain here, but you better make sure to first amend the Constitution so that scheming politicians don’t pull a bait-and-switch and saddle us with both an income tax and a sales tax.
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