Surely, but even the word “optional” was controversial because one interpretation was that paying income taxes would be optional, and the reaction to that was “sounds crazy”.
However, the option was to choose the current IRS code OR the Perry flat tax...
Surprising to me, because this is a good guy who wrote that.
I hope he feels better now, but he’ll have to weigh in on that...
Let’s say 50% of all taxpayers chose the Flat Tax Option.
Wouldn’t it be fun to have a President Perry who used that as the justification to reduce the funding of the IRS by 50% ! :)
I can’t remember if the flat tax plan Steve Forbes ran for President on was optional or not.
Just read here on this thread that Gingrich put out an optional flat tax proposal weeks ago.
Sorry, but at this point in time, where we need “BOLD,” “optional” sounds weaselly. It comes off as if, as Margaret Thatcher said, Perry has “gone all wobbley on us.”
It’s almost like Steve Forbes is doing a good cop, bad cop thing. Because, in the end, this proposal ends up highlighting the strong points of 999, not detracting from it.