[lentulusgracchus]

We actually had a flat tax ... It was called the Tax Reform Act of 1986. It was flat, but it was not simple.

Curring bump. Many credits and deductions survived, and then Bob Dole and other Senate Republicans (Dole was minority leader, then majority leader, for another 10 years after the Tax Reform Act passed) allowed lobbyists to start screwing with the deductions and amortization schedules again, and then Slick got elected and immediately attacked the whole idea, and led us back toward higher marginal "screw-you" rates.

[Daveinyork]

Does anyone in their right mind think that congress is capable of doing anything different?