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After reading quite a bit about the Fair Tax I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't solve all of the problems of our current tax structure. I don't think that an income tax is a horrible thing, nor a sales tax, nor property taxes...but we have all of these. We have a direct income tax both Federal and State, State sales tax, gas tax, rooms and meals tax, property tax, taxes disguised as fees etc. Despite all the taxes that the Fair Tax doesn't alter, the fair tax jumps through hoops to be revenue neutral. While this is to make it conform to Federal law, if they are already proposing to change the constitution, changing that law is not an additional hurdle.

Let's face it, we give government too much money and they spend it foolishly. We need to decrease the amount given to government, and have a complete cap on deficit spending.

In order for me to support an overhaul of our tax structure (and I suspect I'm not alone) it has to be a comprehensive plan that remarkably reduces taxation (both Federal and State), gets rid of the IRS to the largest extent possible, and gets rid of corporate taxation.

While that is going on States and Towns need to have their tax structures and spending policies completely overhauled. I'm sick of stories of little old ladies and down on their luck folks losing their houses for not paying property taxes. The inference there is that the state really owns all property and we need to pay them rent. Property taxes should be banned or at least the penalties should not include loss of said property.

How about evolution instead of revolution?

Here’s a proposal ( please critique it ) :

You will be given the choice of filing taxes two alternative ways :

1) The flat way with ZERO deductions.

OR;

2) The traditional way which will require you to conform to the current tax code.

The flat tax will guarantee NO IRS audits. It will require you to pay a FLAT 10% of your income with NO DEDUCTIONS.

If you make $10,000, your income tax will be $1000.

If you make $20,000, your income tax will be $2000

If you make $50,000, your income tax will be $5,000

If you make $100,000, your income tax will be $10,000

If you make $1 Million, your income tax will be $100,000

NO HOME MORTGAGE DEDUCTIONS, NO CHARITY OR CHURCH CONTRIBUTION DEDUCTIONS, NO DEDUCTIONS PERIOD.

EVERYONE PAYS REGARDLESS OF INCOME.

All these in exchange for no IRS audit.

OR, you can choose to file in the current way with all the maze of deductions and the possibility of being audited.

Let’s give this proposal a shot and see in 5 years how many percent of tax payers will file the flat way versus the traditional way.

This will be a REAL LIVE referendum on which tax system will be most acceptable to most Americans.

We GRADUALLY EVOLVE instead of abandoning the current system in one shot with all its political ramifications.

To make this palatable to the libs, call it the PRO-CHOICE TAX BILL. You CHOOSE which tax system you want to file under.

Tell them we are really pro-choice on almost everything except when it comes to taking the life of an innocent baby.