It [a flat tax] doesn’t have to be “a cancer” as you posit; for example if we amended the Constitution to say something like:
1) All incomes will be taxed at 5%, no exceptions.
2) Any evasion of taxes by a public official, who having been duly convicted, shall result in their immediate removal and the revocation of all emoluments they would otherwise be entitled to for their service in that position.
Yeah sure.....like that would ever work.
Do yourself a favor, next time avoid the public school that gave you what they called an ‘education’.