“You went off topic.”
On the contrary. you said: “So go on and argue about semantics. The point is you and flat tax lovers have no way of stopping a flat tax from growing into ever more brackets and becoming progressive.”
I replied: So I guess all of this Tea Party nonsense and Conservative reformation is just a bunch of shit? We’re all wasting our time? Good to know. Why bother coming here?
So how is that off topic? Your rebuttal to the proposed flat tax is what MIGHT happen, NOT what WILL happen and it assumes that we fail in our efforts to reform. Is that or is that not what you are saying?
I ask you; If you believe that, why try?
My posts were not about ‘what might happen’ to the Flat Tax. The Flat tax has been tried in American history a total of 6 times starting with the very first tax code in 1913 after the 16th amendment was ratified.
If a flat tax has failed 6 times to stay flat then it is not difficult to understand why it keeps failing. The 16th amendment is a de facto business license for members of Congress, the IRS and tax lobbyists to tinker with the code.
There is nothing to stop a flat tax from creating more and more brackets to the point that it is no longer flat. What keeps new brackets forming is the 16th amendment and Congress. They will pass amendments to creat another bracket, then another and then another etc. Nothing can stop them because the 16th allows them to do it.
Take away the 16th and there will be no more tax insanity. But take away the 16th and a flat tax will no longer be legal. But the FairTax is legal under a Constitution where the 16th has been repealed.