[muawiyah]

Why? The federal personal income tax was only supposed to hit the top 1% or 2%.

It's a big fat failure. Abolish it and move on.

[andy58-in-nh]

We need a broader, not a narrower tax base. Whether that is in the form of a levy on income or sales does not matter so much as the fact that it needs to be paid by as many people as possible.

Only then will a majority of Americans have an incentive to cut the size, scope and reach of government. Right now, the endless expansion of the Leviathan State only hurts a shrinking minority of voters - and that is entirely by design.