[goldstategop]

A flat income tax is just a flattened income tax. I'm not interested in improving the income tax; I want to abolish it completely. A government that collects taxes on income wants to know everything about your personal affairs. Quite frankly, I think that should be NONE of its business. That, among other reasons, is why I support the Fair Tax.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Postman]

You are, of course, entitled to your hopes and beliefs. I trust politicians as far as I can throw an M1 Abrams tank and legitimizing the “fair” tax, merely gives them another venue in which to work their creative mischief to the detriment of nearly each and every one of us. It won’t eliminate the taxing bureaucracy and, I’m pretty certain that the “government” (or any good hacker, for that matter) already knows much more about you than you’re aware of or would want them to know. I’m afraid that the privacy genie is already out of the bottle and has been for a long time.

If you haven’t read it already, post #31 is very interesting.

Be well.

[Postman]

Additionally, the “ifs” “ands” and “wherefores” are mind numbing. Read the examples given on page 9 of the proposed legislation. Read the rest of it. It’s more Play Doh for politicians. Hardly an improvement over the convoluted mess we have now.