Congress’ practical power to increase taxes would be much more limited under 999 than anything we have under our present tax code!
Under 999, everyone would pay taxes. Therefore, any congresscritter who voted to increase taxes would, unlike today, be voting to increase them on 100% of their constituents.
They would no longer be able to vote for tax increases that only affected the other guy.
Parasites would no longer be able to push their congresscritters to raise taxes on everyone else so they can get more free stuff — every tax increase would affect everybody equally.
That is vastly superior political accountability than we have now or have ever had.
We would finally have the clout we need to hold down taxes.
Can you imagine Maxine Waters voting to raise taxes on “her people” (as she calls them)?
No, she would sit around whining and lobbying for an exception for “her people.” And the rest of us would say that, except for the few empowerment zones (disaster areas), we’ve established the principle that everybody pays the same tax rate and that principle is not changing.
I'm surprised the dems haven't thought of taxing us based on skin color already. /s