To: BaghdadBarney
Repealing the 16th Amendment will take forever and a day. I disagree. The 21st Amendment (repealing Prohibition) sailed through Congress and was ratified by the states in less than a year. The IRS is even more unpopular with the people than prohibition was.
250 posted on
11/06/2002 2:57:16 PM PST by
Ditto
To: Ditto
Baloney. The 16th Amendment and Prohibition. Apples and Oranges, my friend. Everybody hates the IRS but Everybody loves their Social Security, their Medicare, their Unemployment Insurance, their Government-backed school loans, etc. etc. etc. I'm all for major reform of these programs but the fact of the matter is they do exist and anytime Republicans step foot in this quicksand they get clobbered politically and LOSE!!! Remember the 1995 budget battle. This should - and can - revisit the unfinished business of the 1986 tax reform bill. There were some good things - and some bad things - that came out of that bill that have been subsequently watered down or scrapped. Bringing the tax code down to TWO rates would be a good start. Scrapping a number of silly deductions would be another good way to go. But... the Congress should avoid RAISING the corporate tax and other crazy excise taxes to pay for these changes. I'm out. I'm getting long winded.
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