[yup2394871293]

Right now there is more ability to corruptly use the tax code for political ends then there would be under 9-9-9. So the same critical comments being made about 9-9-9 apply MUCH more to the current tax system..

The same arguments could be used in favor of a single flat income tax. In terms of the laws already on the books, you would think it would be easier to simplify the current income tax code by flattening it and getting rid of various credits and deductions. But that doesn't mean your assertion is correct in the first place. The more types of taxes that are already in place, the more opportunities for politicians to tinker the tax code.

[MNJohnnie]

The more types of taxes that are already in place, the more opportunities for politicians to tinker the tax code.

Absolutely incorrect.

Our current tax system with it myriad credits and deductions does that. MORE types of taxes does not add any such opportunity to "tinker" with rates.

You can do the exact same think you complain about in our current code. NOTHING is there to stop the Political Class from doing that tinkering right now.

So again your critic is without merit.

9-9-9, in fact, seriously reduces the political classes ability to tinker since it is transparent and everyone pays. There is no ability to pit one political group against another by demagoguery like "making the rich pay their fair share" or to write breaks into the code for fat cat lobbys

There is a much greater opportunity to tinker with the current tax system with it mind numbing complexity and opaqueness then there would be in the relatively transparency of a 9-9-9 system