I don’t get it. No matter what the tax, Congress never stops spending. Balancing the budget would require a 100% tax and Congress would still go out and spend more besides the future debt coming due in the form of interest and principle payments that will go overseas and not back in to the US economy.
999 is absurd. First, you get taxed making money then you get taxed spending money beside being put on unequal footing with businesses. We already have it that way for ones who pay taxes now.
If half the population doesn’t pay any taxes now to begin with and 999 is suppose to equal the current revenues from IRS collections then only about half of each 9% tax would collect as much taxpayers send in now since everyone would be involved now including corporations.
If you are going eliminate the IRS tax code first, then make a 10% maximum or less flat tax on consumption and make Congress live within their means instead of pie in sky, grant all wishes, control the universe with their laws, attitudes...of course a new banking system has to be put in place to deal with the current debt before any new tax plan would work.
I suggest you read this link for more details of the 9-9-9 plan including answers to often asked questions plus a CALCULATOR for your taxes is on that site.
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