Nobody, but nobody would disagree that the current system is deeply flawed, but why throw out the whole house along with the baby and the bathwater? A Fair, Flat Tax is the answer. Some will crow "we tried that", as we tried democracy and failed, and came up with a constitutional republic, and made it better. We've made bad ideas good, we've torn the union apart and put it back together even better. "Everybody" was "for" prohibition.. we know how all that worked out.
Fix the code, flatten the tax, use what others have succeeded at, and make it better.
[Fix the code, flatten the tax, use what others have succeeded at, and make it better.]
That wouldn't bother me if we could really 'fix' it. By that I mean remove the ability of Congress to ever change it, create exceptions, loopholes and exemptions, start it at the first dollar of income, and remove the fallacy that businesses can pay a tax without passing it along in higher prices to customers. Oh, and find a way to tax the imports just like the producing companies are taxing our exports by adding the VAT to them.
I don't know of any Flat Income Tax proposal that offers to do all that. Usually, they want to give people a big fat exemption, continue to tax people a second time by taxing businesses, and giving trade advantages to foreign producers by not rebating the business taxes on exports.