ucodegen, appreciate the excellent remarks. Apologize if I get a bit abrasive from time to time. Mixing it up with the facist Fox News brown shirts brings out the best in all of us.

In truth, I don’t know what the answer is. VAT? Flat? I know YOY valuation is impractical. Income is a decent approximation, if we could just tighten up the loopholes.

Definitely not a ‘fair system’ right now. Public finance is a mess, GOP is starving the beast, while billionaires and corporations within corps within corps play shell games with asset growth.

surveyor, what can I say? You lost your way a while ago. No ground control. You’re a sad and empty soul parroting twisted talking points handed down from GOP apparatchiks. Feel free to cut-n-paste more drivel…