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Originally Posted by kutulu
On to the Flat Tax garbage:
This is simple. Unless the govt cuts funding significantly they will need just as much money. Now if we cut the taxes on the rich by half, who has to absorb that money? Oh it the middle class and the poor.
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It's nice to see that you're keeping an open mind.
Yes, the idea behind Tax reform is that the tax code is made simpler, and waste is removed. This leads to the idea of removing other forms of government waste which cost the taxpayers oodles of cash. Ideally, were we to switch to a flat tax unnecessary government programs would be tossed, and we would set ourselves on the route to curbing spending increases and balancing the budget.
The idea that we shouldn't touch the tax system because it is bloated and parasites depend on it is simply not something I would want anyone to base policy decisions on. Depending on an obsolete bloated monstrosity is a failure of a business strategy, and I can't imagine that it would prove to be a successful move in a government application either.