[groanup]

Steve Forbes never told me to read a book. He told me to subtract $36,000 from my gross income and multiply by .17.

Oh, so you're ok with a tax as long as it starts out simple. What if it grows into a 60,000 page monster? Do you think it should be abolished? If so why would you want to start all over with one of those monsters?

[robertpaulsen]

"Oh, so you're ok with a tax as long as it starts out simple."

It could be as complex as you want as long as it's small. As I said in my post #52, cut spending, repeal the 16th, and go back to tariffs and excise taxes.

IF we're going to make a change, then I'd prefer the least disruptive and least controversial -- a flat tax. Either a flat tax that everyone pays or a flat tax with some deduction. If the latter, then those who are exempt from paying taxes also are exempt from voting. I'm not going to have non-tax-payers voting to increase my taxes.

If I were King.

[xcamel]

It is exactly what would happen with any form of tax replacement. Human nature is human nature, and politicians will always be politicians.