[humbletheFiend]

My only issue with it is that it would likely put thousands of CPA's out of a job, but it would also do away with the majority of the IRS.

Maybe you can help me with something I've been wondering about. Why would a flat tax (i.e., a uniform tax rate) on income wipe out the "majority of the IRS" or render CPA's useless?

[ANAGM]

"Why would a flat tax (i.e., a uniform tax rate) on income wipe out the "majority of the IRS" or render CPA's useless?"

Under the ARMEY proposal, you forfeit your deductions (weep), and the tax form is the size of a postcard. The simplicity of it all demands that CPA's and the IRS would have to reduce their numbers. Clint Eastwood once put it this way, if the flat tax were passed the IRS would be replaced by a little old lady and a PC.