[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

while pondering and musing about the rates a flat tax or fair tax would impose on the working folk of this country, keep this in mind: When the 16th Amendment was being debated, republicans wanted to include a cap of 1% for the income tax. Democrats fought against this, as it might have scared people into thinking it might, one day, get that high; and the sheeple wouldn't stand for a tax rate as high as 1%.

No matter what rate is established, if it's in a law rather than in an Amendment, it will be subject to the manipulations of the money grubbers on capital hill.

[LurkLongley]

I object to the entire idea of income taxes for several reasons, not the least of which is that it imposes a form of economic serfdom/slavery. I am not sure what the best form of taxation is, but I am coming around to the belief that the only fair form would be a consumption tax of some sort, perhaps a national sales tax.

Our current system is highly unfair and unjust, not to mention complicated. It is ridiculous in the extreme that our tax code has spawned an entire industry that is dedicated simply to helping individuals and corporations to figure it out.