[Graybeard58]

Most of us at F.R. agree that we need a different tax plan but most everybody disagrees on how to do it. That may be true of the general population of people who actually pay taxes as well. Factor in that 47% that are net tax takers as well and are happy with the system as is and you will have a huge problem getting any part of the tax system changed whatsoever.

[JDW11235]

As one of the net tax payers, I agree. If the Federal government were shrunk down to the level of it’s Constitutional Authority, the funds (and therefore taxation) required to run it would be so tiny and insignificant, that the source wouldn’t be quibbled over. But the income tax wasn’t really instituted to fund the government, so much as to surpress the economy (and thus influence) of the middle class over time, making us all to be eventually wards of the state (the entire aim of Progressives), serfs in poverty.

[JDW11235]

I said the source wouldn’t be quibbled over. To correct myself, it probably still would be, but it wouldn’t be as pressing an issue, and most everyone would prosper more than they are now anyway. The greatest fleecing in all of mankind (economically), is the U.S. income tax and paycheck witholding. Trillions upon trillions stolen before it was ever even seen.