Great video. If there’s a chance to get either one passed let’s move forward, preferrably with a consumption tax.
You raise another point of departure that I have with the flat taxers. They claim that that the flat tax is more politically viable, since it is closer to what we already have. If that is the case, why do they not have a single bill with even 10 co-sponsors? And if that is the case, why is their only bill in the house a flat tax option? Also, how in the world do they expect the rest of the country to fall in behind them when the flat taxers themselves cannot even decide which proposal they support?
As Dick Armey said, the climb to get fundamental tax reform enacted is too steep and arduous that it does not make sense to go to that effort and get “the wrong answer”. I agree 100% with that sentiment; I just don’t agree with what would constitute “the right answer”.
The “inside the beltway” types don’t realize it yet, but the flat tax is dead as dead can be. That is the case whether the FairTax continues to grow or not.