Do something EXTERMELY daring on tax reform.
I'd suggest at minimum the flat tax plan Steve Forbes proposed 21 years ago for at minimum. And openly say we'll do research on FairTax.
Bravo
“... we’ll do research on FairTax.”
Research, OK. But if the FairTax still involves the awful ‘pre-bates’ concept, then it is dead already.
Repealing the income tax would be very difficult and time-consuming itself - though I’m for it.
Doing all that work and then poisoning the plan with pre-bates has always been the fatal flaw of the so-called “FairTax” plan.
It’s like spending all your hard work and political capital to finally re-achieve objective fairness in taxation and then trading all that work for Dem-style subjective fairness instead.
I don’t really know, perhaps the FairTax folks have dumped the awful pre-bates in recent years.