If you’re going to go to flat tax, just get to it! All this B.S. of arriving at it circuitously is unnecessary. I don’t trust a guy who is trying to improve upon something that everyone else knows is irreparable. A lot of people are incapable of handling complexity. Thus, the adage, “keep it simple stupid!” Does this goof have a 59-point plan to annul obamacare? I never liked the guy. I still don’t. I don’t think he can be trusted to do anything that is not in his own interest.
It's unnecessary if you work for a think tank. Politicians who need to work for every vote will demur. A flat tax will have adverse effects on voters in certain income brackets, who will turn out in force to prevent the politician floating the proposal from being elected to office. It's a lot like Social Security - any proposal that deals with pocketbook issues will elicit enormous resistance from those who are adversely impacted, which getting relatively tepid support from those who benefit. Classic psychological paradox here - pain is a much bigger motivator than pleasure, at least at the polls.
I don’t think he can be trusted to do anything that is not in his own interest.
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That’s the understatement of the year.
This guy would literally sell his own soul to be president. This whole EXERCISE is all about HIM, not for anything that seems to be “good for the country.”
If he was FOR the country, he’d drop the hell out of the race altogether.