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Amen.

Here is the text of an email I just sent to about 15 people, including my representatives at the county, state, and federal levels. I suggest we all do the same thing.

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Well, I am almost finished with the most flagrant waste of my time--doing Federal taxes. Just look at Schedule D to enter the worst nightmare of your tax-paying lives. For years, I have thought a flat rate would be best. The only deduction would be for charitable deductions, nothing else. Even Russia now has a flat rate tax of 13%! I think that percentage is about 3% too high, but, hey, it's a step in the right direction.

Anyway, here's an idea that might help politicians realize that they have to do something to end the insanity of a 46,000-page tax code: after sending in your 2001 tax return, take your 2001 tax booklet (you may have to get one at the post office; or use a section of the newspaper if you do not have a tax booklet) and write "I want a 10% flat tax implemented by 2004." Then mail it to the senior Senator from your state. If he/she receives tens of thousands of these booklets in the mail each year, maybe he/she will get the idea that we want simplification instead of punishment and distress.

Please forward this email to anyone you think may be sympathetic to reforming our tax system.

Thanks.

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Please--everyone else do the same. It will not take much time to get a fairly-substantive protest accomplished.