I'd be all for filling out my taxes on a postcard. Fine. Just as long as my pitiful salary is taxed at the same rate as the $10 million trust fund the guy down the street lives on.
I'd be all for filling out my taxes on a postcard. Fine. Just as long as my pitiful salary is taxed at the same rate as the $10 million trust fund the guy down the street lives on.
You will also be subject to the same audit to assure what ever you put on that post card is correct.
With less information guess what happens to the IRS to assure it can administer and verify the accuracy and validity of those postcard Flat Tax returns.
"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house....The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the tax payer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state."
-- Virginian House Speaker Richard E. Byrd, 1910, predicting the consequences of an income tax.
Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention June 12, 1788:
- "the oppression arising from taxation, is not from the amount but, from the mode
I believe I would much rather pay retail sales taxes to a business and avoid the hassel and intrusion of a federal IRS myself.
Individual Tax Return for the FairTax National Retail Sales Tax:
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Having a little class envy, are we?