If we’d repeal the 16th and fund our government with a border-adjusted mechanism, this wouldn’t be a problem.
===> national retail sales tax
Why, to keep the welfare state going?
Low tarriff on all imported goods with no variation and no exception. If the 16th is not repealed then a 9% flat earned income tax (the SocSec tax is an income tax and has to go, too) with no exceptions, exemptions, credits, deductions, from the first dollar earned. The taxpayer has to write the check monthly or every paycheck or whatever, no withholding.