Lazy writing. Totally without merit or logic or reason.
But obamacare can?
No Income Tax. No IRS. No flat tax. No Fair Tax.
Each one of these damned things invades your life and destroys your freedoms.
Abolish all direct taxes. Make all taxes excise taxes. Excise taxes do not require you to give up information that can be used against you.
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“But reality is a lot tougher than some tax models. A flat tax would just be a colossal giveaway to the rich—and maybe even take away for the poor—and that doesn’t help the economy much. Just look, for example, at Rick Perry’s version of this.”
Why is it a giveaway? 10% may be 100 dollars or 10 million dollars. It’s still 10%. It’s relative and that’s fair.
What this means in plain English is that the current "progressive" tax model would be discarded in favor of a model that taxes everyone the same. The "giveaway to the rich" is, in fact, taking less of their money. The "takeaway to the poor" is, in fact, turning them into taxpayers. The only wild imagination involved in this is the one claiming "it'll never work" without any substantive data.
This douche bases his entire sneer on a non-peer reviewed working paper from associate professor at U of Chicago. Meanwhile Several former Eastern Block countries actually implemented flat taxes and saw extraordinary growth.
WOW!!...I’m shocked...The wopo disagrees with Ted Cruz......also there’s gambling in the back room!!!
Great, let’s just skip the flat tax and go all in with the Fair Tax. It doesn’t even need a postcard.