[HiJinx]

Ok, I'll pretend to be naive...
Why does it necessarily have to put CPAs out of business? They do more than taxes. As long as businesses need to keep books, they'll need CPAs to conduct audits at the very least.
And I suspect that some very bright CPAs will figure out a way to branch out...small business consulting services?...and stay in business themselves.
I am obviously not a CPA. Any of you have other good ideas?

[glock rocks]

Any of you have other good ideas?

land fill? no, my bad, that's lawyers. nevermind.

flat tax would be a major step in the right direction from where we are.

[45Auto]

Seems to me I don't voluntarily pay taxes so CPA's can remain in work. I pay taxes like I would pay "protection money" to the mob ; so they won't come and break my legs or in the case of the IRS put me in the can and take away my house. There is very little difference between organized crime and government theft through taxation.

I would support a flat tax but not a national sales tax. The flat tax would have to be something less than 15% and we would have to safeguard the rate by working into law some way to prevent the crooked bastids in Congress from raising it every year. 30% of my hard-earned income is just to darn much. That said, we will never get the criminals in government to agree to anything "fair". The only way we will get out from under their thumb is if we revolt. (Not necessarily armed revolt - don't get me wrong here!)

[ANAGM]

I suppose it doesn't necesssarily put CPA's out of business. However, it certainly would "limit" the number of CPA's by reducing the demand for their services.

[jetson]

http://yourcongress.com/section.asp?section=Where_Money_Goes