We endured it? Rilly? When? I seem to have forgotten ....
When did we ever have a flat tax?
And btw, the same tax lawyers and other saprophytes that started boogering up the 1986 tax-simplification legislation, would go to work on a sales-tax-system so fast, you'd think the ground was moving beneath you with a massive infestation of termites. Which would be true.
We endured the ideas. Which were phony, contrived only to make sure there was no real tax reform.
Since you are so damn smart, trot our your solution to the problem.