How can you insure a Flat tax won’t be manipulated? Flat taxes still require you (and businesses)to file the evermore invasive income filings, detailing every source of revenue and expenditure. None of the governments’ business! Flat taxes still tax behavior that we want to encourage (earning, saving, & investing). Flat taxes leave the IRS with full power.
The Fair Tax is ONLY levied on NEW items at point of CONSUMER purchase. It does not tax earnings, savings, or investments. Does not tax used items or used property. Does not require you to file any earnings report. Does not steal money from your paycheck before you see it. It cuts the IRS by 90%, with their activity being directed towards verifying business sales tax filings.
Fair tax also neuters politicians, since they cannot give state or federal tax credits to corporations in exchange for support.
Please look into the Fair Tax more thoroughly before dismissing it.
About 2/3rds of the cost of any product or service comes indirectly or directly from government. If we got rid of all welfare, all tax credits, all subsidies, all grants, and any other form of hand out and then stripped government regs down to the bare essentials we would not have the average person paying at least 1/2 of the money they make to the Feds, State, and local municipalities.
The IRS will not be eliminated but reduced significantly as you have conceded. Either way money needs to be paid to the government in a manner that acts as reward for it not being overly regulating or tyrannical and irresponsible with the money that comes into their coffers.
If you have a national sales tax, which is what you are proposing, as the only means to tax individuals and businesses make it no more than 10 percent max. The Feds could take 5 percent, the State 3-4 percent, and local municipalities 1-2 percent.
But do really think that the control freaks in the District of Criminals will go for such a great idea? Not in a million freakin’ years because they are a bunch of con artists, criminals, thugs, control freaks, sharks, wolves, and snakes. Until people recognize that, nothing positive is going happen to change that.
People are starting to wake up and smell the hot coffee of this fact. The trend I see is more and more people are doing so and becoming active and trying to do something about this problem. If something isn’t done you can see America turning into a North Korea or a North Korea with Islam as its state religion.