Quickest way to get tax reform would be to move the deadline day from April 15th to November 1st and eliminate tax withholding. If Americans had to write a big check to the government right before the elections there would be hell to pay in Washington.
“Quickest way to get tax reform would be to move the deadline day from April 15th to November 1st and eliminate tax withholding. If Americans had to write a big check to the government right before the elections there would be hell to pay in Washington.”
Excellent idea. Let them write a big check with a gun to their heads.
True, and that is why it will never happen. The IRS is the cash register for Congress, republican or democrat, and a veritable means of favor-selling. They will NEVER give that up!
I think at this point the only way to eliminate withholding would be a Constitutional amendment, and if we're going for that, then why not put some other limitations on the taxing powers of the US?
Here's what I'd propose: Amendment Booklet.pdf
(Though there's more than just tax-reform in there.)