[Iwo Jima]

As with any taxation abuses may occur.

Why is that an "abuse"? It sounds exactly what any good businessman would do. It's the kind of tax avoidance that I or any reasonable person would do.

While it is proposed that the IRS be abolished there would necessarily be an enforcement arm of the new entity. Such an overt abuse as driving a car around the block and selling it as used would and should be actionable, IMHO.

So we're back where we started, eh? Just what "action" do you propose be taken against people who arrange their affairs so as to not pay the tax. Put them in jail? Take away their house? Put them through an audit to make sure that they are paying their taxes correctly?

And this differs from the current situation, how?

[phil_will1]

"And this differs from the current situation, how?"

Well, for starters, we would be replacing a 60,000+ page system with one that is a couple of hundred pages long. IOW going from a system that noone understands to one that anyone could. That is more than a 98% simplification.

Second, the points of collection/enforcement would be reduced by about 90%,making possible much higher compliance rates with far fewer resources.

Third, individual citizens would no longer have to inform the federal governemnt of every detail of their financial affairs annually.

That's not bad for starters.

[groanup]

Why is that an "abuse"? It sounds exactly what any good businessman would do. It's the kind of tax avoidance that I or any reasonable person would do.

Because that is not tax avoidance it is tax evasion. The difference is about twenty years.