FLAT TAX - yes! Preferably as close a possible to 10%. EVERYBODY the same. SIMPLE. Throw away the 74,000-page tax code. Turn the IRS into a small store front. Only exception: maybe a fixed poverty line where there’s no tax. The poverty line should move only upon an act of Congress.
Please, quit using the word “fair” with the word “tax.”
“Fairness in taxation” is what gave us the 74,000-page tax code and a monster IRS who themselves don’t understand the convoluted tax code.
FLAT TAX. SIMPLE. Period.
Yep. No prebate, no swarm of bureaucrats. Don't pay on the first 1.5 X poverty level, pay 10% on the rest.
No muss, no fuss.
A flat tax can’t exist when the 16th Amendment is repealed.
Really? There's 74,000 pages to describe a simple progressive tax rate?
There's about 10 pages describing the tax rates, and 73,990 pages describing what is and isn't income. Talk to any business owner about simply deciding what is and isn't a valid business expense. There's always something the IRS can niggle on.
As long as you have an income tax, the question of deciding what is and isn't income will get hairy - there's too much money involved for it not draw lots of lawsuits and pay lots of lobbyists for exemptions and special clauses.
The income tax is what needs to go.