So unless the transition phase is pain-free, it is not worth doing a reform? KEY QUESTION: Tell me how we won't be stuck with ANOTHER tax system.
I am in favor of a Dick Armey-style flat tax, (reform of the current income tax). If we can't get even that passed, all of this fair tax theory is just silly.
KEY QUESTION: Tell me how we won't be stuck with ANOTHER tax system.
Of course we will have another tax system. We will not have TWO systems. Part of HR 25 is to abolish the
16th Amendment.
As already stated, the flat tax will still leave the 16th Amendment, along with all of its baggage, intact.
Nobody is kidding themselves into thinking that this is going to be a HUGH task. Boortz on the air today compared this task to the American Revolution. It will take a lot of hard work and many boots on the ground.
Did you see how far SS reform got? Nobody was interested in changing it. People have not yet screamed for reform. Washington politicians believed that they would lose their jobs if they backed W's SS reform, when in reality, the opposite may be true.
Without hard work and a lot of screaming about these BIG issues, there will be no reform.