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Got it. You actually have no argument with the bill itself; you've just already given up on the whole "of, by, for the people" thing. Government's won.

We'll never be able to outspend the Soviet Union.

The Berlin Wall will never come down.

We'll never land a man on the moon.

States will never pass concealed carry laws.

The assault weapons ban will never sunset.

We'll never pass a tax cut, let alone two.

Yeah, I guess you're right. We should ignore good ideas when they seem too hard. I hope I don't need the /s tag here.

Got it. You actually have no argument with the bill itself; you've just already given up on the whole "of, by, for the people" thing. Government's won.

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No, you still don't "have it!" Every example you've listed with one exception, involves spending revenue, not collecting it. This backs up my point. Spending is something we do quite well. Taxing people is something we do even better. If, in our desire to make a better tax structure, we give the foxes an even better chance at the chickens, we won't accomplish what we set out to do. They will use the bill to their advantage to increase taxes. That's what they do best, and this will just give them some new smoke and mirrors to help them take proportionally more from taxpayers. This is what I have seen happen numerous times on all government levels.
I taught public school in CT for 32 years. When we needed new teachers back in early 80s we passed an enhancement act to raise salaries to 35k for beginning teachers. Since our contract was legally binding on the state, the back end of the salary schedule also had to be raised (to 60k). The salary schedule more than doubled in cost, and no new teachers could be hired because all the old ones had to stay extra years to get the salary increases to double their retirement incomes. The state went broke trying to pay the salaries, and their was absolutely no improvement in the educational product. The only thing that changed at school was the size of the cars in the teachers parking lot! The state of CT then enacted an income tax to pay the shortfall. They did so by "reducing" not eliminating the highest in the nation sales tax. do you see what I mean? The politicians used the teacher salary issue ( the children, the classroom teachers, the importance of education) as the smoke screen to get the income tax past the voters. These guys are good! Most are lawyers, and use the system.
Am I for tax reform? Absolutely. But reform must be to the existing system, not new plans that allow these people to take further advantage of us as will doubtless happen with the fair tax. Our present system makes everyone that pays tax unhappy. this probably means its working.
Again, I am not negative, defeated, resigned, or in any other way disheartened. In fact since 911 I have become more positive than ever that we are the greatest country ever on the face of this earth, with the greatest 20% of can do people in history (smile), and we have much to be thankful for.