The United States Tax Code is the basic reason for corruption in government and this corruption pays well while in office and pay even better when those corrupt congressmen become K Street lobbyists. A flat rate tax will eliminate this corruption. Congress will fight this will every thing they have as most in Congress are corrupt.
Let’s look at this from the rat perspective.
The US treasury takes X from the taxpayer
Taxpayers get to keep Y
For the treasury to give away more money they have to take more from the taxpayer.
For the taxpayer to keep more of their money, the treasury has to get less.
It’s pretty simple. Question to Democrats should always be,
“do you want to take more of the taxpayers money to give to others?” It’s black and white.