[DIRTYSECRET]

You still need a tax collector. Who is it going to bee? A flat rate could get rid of most of them.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Koskonin taunted the Republicans when testifying under Obama. The fact that he is not facing charges suggests the Republicans are not serious.

[WMarshal]

You still need a tax collector. Who is it going to bee? A flat rate could get rid of most of them.

A sales tax would be much better in that they would only have to monitor a much smaller subset, businesses, instead of every breathing person.

[samiam5]

We got by just fine without the IRS until 1913. Abolish the agency and follow the constitution.

[kvanbrunt2]

You still need a tax collector. Who is it going to bee? A flat rate could get rid of most of them.>>> sales tax gets rid of all of them. no snoopin no personal reporting. no irs. sales tax collected at the states and transferred to the treasury. and then maybe no fed.

[Hostage]

1. A ‘flat tax’ never stays ‘flat’.

2. It never stays flat because the 16th Amendment is a perpetual license for new Congress’s to rearrange at will.

3. A flat tax needs the 16th Amendment because it is an ‘income’ tax without apportionment.

4. Items 1, 2, 3 above form a vicious circle.

The way out of the income tax infinite loop is to abolish the income tax, impose a pre-1913 excise tax in the form of a consumption tax with a tax-free floor, and repeal the 16th.