[Pollster1]

I like the idea of a flat tax set by the spending bills passed for that year.

Pass the military budget? Add 2% to the tax rate.

Pass the HHS budget? Add 3% to everyone’s tax rate.

Pass any other spending bill for the upcoming year? Add an equal percentage to everyone’s tax rate, an amount set by the need to cover the costs of that spending. There are several problems with government spending, but one of the biggest is the perception that this is OPM (Other People’s Money) and not real dollars.

If the leeches and their supporters didn’t see Uncle Sugar’s spending as coming from soaking the rich (which is wehere it at least seems to come from), they’d be a whole lot more thoughtful on how they spent our tax dollars.

[Defend Liberty]

I like the idea of a flat tax set by the spending bills passed for that year.

Congress like the idea of a flat income tax when they passed the 16th Amendment in 1913. People were taxed 1% on the first $20,000 of income and 7% on nay income over $500,000. Less than 1% of the population earned more than $500,000. That also means more than 99% paid the 1% tax, making it a flat tax on income. It has evolved over 98 years into the multi tiered, convoluted, increasingly intrusive mess we have today.

The same will happen with another flat income tax only faster thanks to the thousands of lobbyists that didn't exist in 1913. They will create more loopholes and exemptions for their big business clients that has ballooned the federal income tax code to more than 67,500 pages.

The Fair Tax will prevent history from repeating itself by fundamentally shifting power away from the federal government to the people as the latter will decide when and how often they are taxed.