Eliminating the federal income tax and replace it with a national sales tax gets my vote.
I'll second that...
Will result in the deepest economic depression that this country has ever seen. An NST will make the 1930's seem like the .com '90's.
Is there a method to resolve the current problem of the tax system? Perhaps as a first step, Congress can pass its own ethical rules that will require each representative and senator to prepare and file his own tax return without any professional help or guidance and under penalty of being dismissed from Congress, certify his compliance to his respective ethic committees.
-- Denis A. Kleinfeld
It's a game. We [tax lawyers] teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich -- and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.
-- John Grisham (The Firm)