Okay, so assuming that there's no such thing as "special deductions" and "write-offs" and "charitable donations that pay back triple as a write-off" or any OTHER flubber that allows one income class to "lose more burden" than any other, I think a 17% flat tax is a GREAT notion. But the trouble, again, is with the fact that the American tax system has been riddled with bulletholes from the machinegun of greedy robber baron lobbyists who get their wealthy high-hog pals on Capitol Hill to do their every bit of bidding.
American government needs to be cleaned up (NEEDS, all caps!) and we need genuine, modern, progressive reform to every branch of US government to keep the checks checking and the balances balancing. We've gone nearly two and a half centuries with no major reform, while we've seen the coming and going of the age of Enlightenment, the Great Frontier, the Industrial Revolution, the Cold War, and coming out of the other side now of the Information Age. It's time for revisions that make sense NOW and that apply to the current era and simplify life, living, pursuit of happiness and of justice.
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Date: 2011-07-22 06:02 am (UTC)American government needs to be cleaned up (NEEDS, all caps!) and we need genuine, modern, progressive reform to every branch of US government to keep the checks checking and the balances balancing. We've gone nearly two and a half centuries with no major reform, while we've seen the coming and going of the age of Enlightenment, the Great Frontier, the Industrial Revolution, the Cold War, and coming out of the other side now of the Information Age. It's time for revisions that make sense NOW and that apply to the current era and simplify life, living, pursuit of happiness and of justice.