[Utmost Certainty]

That’s a silly argument, considering that are already dozens of embedded taxes that Congress jacks the rates up on all the time under your nose.

I’d rather have the NST (national sales tax) because it’s much more salient.

Phase #2 of 999 gets rid of the income tax and IRS. :)

[Paleo Conservative]

Phase #2 of 999 gets rid of the income tax and IRS. :)

Don't hold your breath waiting for a repeal of the 16th amendment.

[Hugin]

Phase #2 of 999 gets rid of the income tax and IRS. :)

It's unlikely that phase 1 would ever get passed. There's not a snowballs chance phase 2 ever would.

[fightinJAG]

Sources tell Fox News it will be an optional 20% flat income tax with a $12,500.00 deduction per individual, per household. Taxpayers may otherwise choose to keep paying under existing IRS code.

By making the flat tax optional and maintaining the entire present albatross of the present tax code monstrousity and the IRS, Perry's plan seems to be building in more bureaucracy, more compliance costs, more desperation for crony capitalism to be pushed under the code, and more, rather than less, social division among Americans.

One of the very important principles that animates the 999 plan, a principle which comes from the Laffer Curve, is that the tax base must be broadened.

Perry's plan does not broaden the tax base (i.e., turn more non-taxpayers into taxpayers). And it further complicates and balkanizes the tax base we have now.

I don't see it.