Not everyone seeing flaws in the proposed “fair tax” desire to see the IRS and current income tax remain.
As I have said many times in many discussions, the answer isn’t in how we change the manner of tax collection, it is getting out of control spending in check.
Any tax reform that doesn’t do anything to curb the outrageous way money is spent in D.C. is worthless, even if it ultimately eleminates the IRS.
As long as they are collecting the money, politicans will find ways to spend it to buy votes to remain in power and seek even more.
We desperatley need tax reform, but first there has to be a curb on out of control federal spending.
>>Any tax reform that doesn’t do anything to curb the outrageous way money is spent in D.C. is worthless, even if it ultimately eleminates the IRS.
That is patently not so.
A huge problem with the current system is lack of transparency. The Fair Tax would solve that problem in a BIG way.
While curbing spending is no doubt a huge issue, that doesn’t mean that eliminating the IRS and the enormous compliance costs associated with the current system, and replacing it with a much lower cost system, would be “worthless”.