[quote=Hobie]Then Brian you should be in favor of the ‘Fair Tax’ or other similar flat tax and the government should spend within its means.
This system would require a fraction of the government employees. Just think how much money would become available to ‘help’ others.[/quote]
I’m opposed to a flat tax, purely because of it’s regressiveness, but that aside, there’s no reason that it would result in any cost savings in administration. I’m presuming that assertion is based on it simplifying the tax code. It won’t. The tax rate schedule is among the simplest part of computing tax. The complications in the tax code are in defining income. Those definitions comprise most of the more than 5 million words in the US tax code. The tax rate sections are a tiny piece. It can be simplified. But in many cases, simplifying it invites exploitation of loop holes.
