[aquila48]

“Taxes and the IRS: Move toward a flat tax and abolish the IRS.”

I know it would be harder to do, but I would love repealing the 16th amendment (income tax) and replace it with a national sales tax. That amendment did more to empower the federal government over us than anything else I can think of.

Not only did it give give the politicians and bureaucrats the power to take as much of our income as they like, but it allowed them to intrude into every facet of our lives and to control our behavior like puppets, by passing tax laws that reward or punish the behavior that the bureaucrats and politicians like or dislike.

[Svartalfiar]

“Taxes and the IRS: Move toward a flat tax and abolish the IRS.”

I know it would be harder to do, but I would love repealing the 16th amendment (income tax) and replace it with a national sales tax. That amendment did more to empower the federal government over us than anything else I can think of.

Or, why not get the feds out of the taxing business. Let Congress/Pres pass a budget, and then take that budget: divide by 2. The House gets half (further divided by 435), and the Senate gets the other half (divided by 100). Each State is then responsible for collecting it's Reps' share of the budget, and passing it on to the feds.