Repeal and replace the 16th amendment.
Put the actual % of flat tax in the amendment so it will require another amendment to the constitution to increase it. Everything is taxed, everyone pays the same amount, no exceptions or exemptions. The rich pay more because they will be buying more stuff. Even drug lords have to buy food and clothes, so you get at the massive underground economy.
The taxing of income, savings, profits is also made illegal. Just products and services (not transactions).
The rich pay more because they will be buying more stuff.
which is not a flat tax argument, but a Fair Tax argument and the two are vastly different. One is a consumption tax, the other is an income tax. The Fair Tax scares me because it also includes a "prebate", which amounts to a payment to low income people. Now we're right back where we were: Politicians can play with the prebate and buy votes. Not good. Forget the Fair Tax and stick with a flat tax on income, not consumption.