I believe they could work together and enact a postcard type system like Armey proposed. Primarily because the elimination of witholding could be postponed.
My bottomline, elimination of the income tax, the primary reason I'm interested in tax reform at all.
Flat Tax keeps an income tax and does nothing to eliminate the SS/Medicare wage tax which is just another income tax albeit with a cap.
Both are an anethama to any concept of personal privacy or liberty. They've got to go and a Flat Tax is just a route to hanging on to them for another century. No thanks.
Control of one's income and first option on what is done with it is fundamental to the exercise of property right and empowerment of the citizen.
Tax reform is not an issue of economics, it is an issue of personal Freedom, and empowerment.
| I discussed the importance of abolishing the income tax because of its tendency to form a habit of servility in the souls of a people that accepts it. Servility of soul is bad not only in itself, it is also an open door through which will soon walk the abuses of ambitious government power. Leaders who find themselves with governmental power over a servile people will be quick to conclude that such a people exist to serve them. |
Hear, Hear!! I'll drink to that ... in fact I already have.