NO form of “income” tax, be it flat, round, or square, is EVERY going to solve the corruption problem in Washington because it leaves in place the main ingredient for that corruption! The Washington crowd wold still be left to decide just what is, or is not, “income”.
The ONLY way to stop that in it’s tracks is to institute a tax system which would allow virtually all taxpayers to, as our founders intended, pay their taxes in a manner that is COMPLETELY anonymous to the government.
This can be done today simply by passing ONE bill currently before both houses of congress (HR25/S13) the FairTax bill!
EVERY = EVER
BINGO!!!!!!!!
This is not an issue of revenue or even of money. It is an issue of freedom and of privacy. The direct taxation of income gives government bureaucrats access to complete knowledge of nearly all aspects of your life because they need to collect data on where you make money, where you spend money, to which that money is given in charity, where that money is invested or placed in trust. How much income is generated from those trusts, and a myriad of other things they can use to control your behavior.
If this excuse for societal control was removed then freedom would increase exponentially.
We need to stop framing the argument in financial terms and start making this a freedom issue because that is where the battle needs to be fought.
BTW the Bureau of internal revenue was not disbanded in 1872 when the first income tax was abolished because congress deemed them necessary to ensure that the current "revenue" was sufficiently collected.
The BIR then became the IRS in 1913 when the current income tax was instituted