A Swing and A Miss on Tax Reform (Tom DeLay Op-Ed)

Washington Post ^ | November 4, 2005 | Representative Tom Delay

[Bigun]

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." ---John Philpot Curran(1808)

Mr. Curran had a VERY good handle on things it seems to me and any real student of human history can not help observing the absolute truth of his statement!

[n-tres-ted]

Well, HOO-RAY FOR TOM DELAY!!! I'm very happy to see he is able to devote some time to such important agenda items for the president, despite the Dem efforts to distract him with their new version of the forged Texas Nat'l Guard docs used by Rather against the president. I hope he is able to blow away that indictment quickly so he can get back to this important subject full time.

[TommyC1]

I hate to burst all the bubbles on this thread, but I have a feeling that when all is said and done, we'll A)have the worst of both worlds and B) be paying MORE taxes.

Call me cynical, but I think that the reason "they" want a new tax code is because, somewhere, somehow these proposals entail an increase no one is going to tell you about till you have it happen to you.

[kentj]

I fear that the monster that has lived under my bed will come out and eat me to - but that does not make it real -

This a the best tax plan that has ever been put forth and probably the most important piece of legislation ever drafted - and you just say they are hiding something from us. Put forth some reasonable argument why this plan that replaces the 5 million word tax code, eliminates the IRS bill we pay for preparation (about 250 billion a year collectively) and taxes people who have been avoiding taxes all along - it is fair to the poor and the rich they young and the old, it is fair to business and labor - it cross's all political boundaries and returns control to the American people - it will virtually destroy the "legal lobby" and eliminate 100,000 of thousands of th phony worthless 501c3 nonprofit groups that live as tax whores in or society.

Don't you think that is worth at least a little endorsement.