I like the Flat Tax and would set it at 17% on both corporate and personal income as suggested by Friedman. The Fair Tax scares me because politicians get to tinker with the “prebate”, which is similar to using my tax dollars to give away free cell phones to deadbeats in order to buy votes.
I would also enact the following laws:
1. If you don’t pay Federal taxes, you don’t get to vote in Federal elections. Nothin’ in the game, why should you?
2. In any year there is a deficit of more than 3%, those sitting members of Congress may not sit for reelection in the next election.
3. Congress cannot exempt itself from any law placed on the citizens it represents.
Yeah, I know it won’t happen, but I’d sure like it if it could.
1) bingo, and I can see nothing unconstitutional.
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3) As it stands, are we still not a nation of Laws, not of Men? In this instance, I see no authority to exempt themselves
4) All members of Congress are to be paid by their State respectively. There is no reason for the perks, $$, etc.