[xcamel]

Amen - 17% flat tax as 10% federal, 5% state, and 2% local.

This would have to include the elimination of 40,000 pages of tax code too.

[pigdog]

Hardly - those would quickly be right back and probably even larger. AND you're ignoring the fact that the payroll taxes (another 7.65% or 15.3%) are added on the that "17%".

What you're talking about is idiocy. It's both more costly than the FairTax and leaves us with all the problems of an income-based tax as shown in this post.