“Having Levin agree is icing on the cake.”
Agreed. I guess getting rid of the entire progressive tax structure is too much to ask?
Like I explain to my kids.
“So with cigarettes and booze the gov’t says they want to reduce that because it is bad for your health, etc. So to discourage that behavour they put a higher tax on that stuff.
And for people that earn more money - you know - the ones who work hard, run companies, invest in companies, companies that employ people and make things - well the gov’t wants to tax these people at a higher rate.
You'd first have to repeal the 16th Amendment or the graduated income tax would just creep back into existence.
I love to see a consumption tax but only if the 16th Amendment were repealed.