Does he know how many attorneys and CPA’s will be out of business the day after a flat tax goes into effect? You’re talking a minimum of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of unemployed people.
Not that I think its not worth doing of course, I’ve believed in it forever, but it sure won’t be helping employment now.
They can go to work for all the new and growing companies.
(Or the lawyers fighting to maintain the status quo and fight the tort reform the new President Perry will push.)
Many of the CPA's would be able to go to work in one of the thousands of new businesses created by the productivity and investment boom resulting from a flat tax. Others could move into investment couseling as many would have new-found wealth they won't know what to do with.
The lawyers could probably become employment placement couselors for the hordes of lobbyists that would be out of work.
Trial lawyers prep for war on Perry America’s trial lawyers are getting ready to make the case against one of their biggest targets in years: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Among litigators, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred – and fear – as Perry, an avowed opponent of the plaintiffs’ bar who has presided over several rounds of tort reform as governor.
And if Perry ends up as the Republican nominee for president, deep-pocketed trial lawyers intend to play a central role in the campaign to defeat him."....