Number of telephone calls the IRS gets every year, asking for help with tax filing needs. On top of that, it receives 10 million letters and 5 million on-site visits.
Under Great Leader Reagan, we did simplify the tax code and despite lower rates, rich people, for a time, paid more taxes. This is part of why we again have such a screwed up tax code. No matter what the rate, people will always bitch that it is unjust and that they are being bled for a liberal utopia. It's an awesome soundbite when Ted Cruz or some other yahoo says they will abolish the IRS and put all those workers on the border, but it is also absurd.
“We should let taxes become so simple that they could be filled out on a postcard,” Cruz wrote in a column for USA Today in October.
Yet while Cruz has called for converting the country’s progressive income tax system to a flat tax, his office confirmed that the Fair Tax is his long-term goal.
“The senator supports a Fair Tax, ultimately,” spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said. “However, the most immediate, effective way to implement comprehensive tax reform is to pass a simple flat tax — so simple that Americans can file on a postcard. This should be the starting point for reform, and once it's in place we should pursue a Fair Tax.”
Another presidential contender, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has also voiced support for a flat tax, but still prefers the vision of his libertarian father, Ron Paul.
“I’ve never said I don’t support a sales tax,” Rand Paul told The Texas Tribune recently while in Dallas. He explained that he viewed moving the federal tax system to a flat tax as “an easier concept to get through a legislature because you’re modifying the existing code.” - See more at: https://fairtax.org/articles/gop-taxonomy-the-flat-taxers-and-the-fair-taxers#sthash.KclXG7PB.dpuf
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ReplyDeleteNumber of telephone calls the IRS gets every year, asking for help with tax filing needs. On top of that, it receives 10 million letters and 5 million on-site visits.
Under Great Leader Reagan, we did simplify the tax code and despite lower rates, rich people, for a time, paid more taxes. This is part of why we again have such a screwed up tax code. No matter what the rate, people will always bitch that it is unjust and that they are being bled for a liberal utopia. It's an awesome soundbite when Ted Cruz or some other yahoo says they will abolish the IRS and put all those workers on the border, but it is also absurd.
ReplyDelete“We should let taxes become so simple that they could be filled out on a postcard,” Cruz wrote in a column for USA Today in October.
ReplyDeleteYet while Cruz has called for converting the country’s progressive income tax system to a flat tax, his office confirmed that the Fair Tax is his long-term goal.
“The senator supports a Fair Tax, ultimately,” spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said. “However, the most immediate, effective way to implement comprehensive tax reform is to pass a simple flat tax — so simple that Americans can file on a postcard. This should be the starting point for reform, and once it's in place we should pursue a Fair Tax.”
Another presidential contender, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has also voiced support for a flat tax, but still prefers the vision of his libertarian father, Ron Paul.
“I’ve never said I don’t support a sales tax,” Rand Paul told The Texas Tribune recently while in Dallas. He explained that he viewed moving the federal tax system to a flat tax as “an easier concept to get through a legislature because you’re modifying the existing code.”
- See more at: https://fairtax.org/articles/gop-taxonomy-the-flat-taxers-and-the-fair-taxers#sthash.KclXG7PB.dpuf