“Under 999, EVERY SINGLE constitutent in EVERY SINGLE congresscritter’s district would be affected by any tax rate increase (both income and sales).”
And so they would do it gradually, a half percent here, a half percent there, kind of like the frog put in a pot of cool water that is warmed gradually so that you don’t notice.
Even if true, how is that risk greater than what we face every day now with Congress’s power to raise taxes?
Are you so satisfied with the present system that you are unwilling to consider how this might be put in place in a way that works?
Would you like to see the tax code abolished, the IRS phased out, every person in America a stakeholder in the tax system?
I see this as a freedom issue as much as anything else.
And if the tax is raised gradually and no one cares, is that a problem? If so, who is at fault for not holding Congress to account?
The reality is that if and when the tax became too much, the people would respond and, more importantly, they would have the leverage to respond, because every congresscritter would be affected.