Dear Eric, Paul and Kevin,
Get rid of the IRS.
Fair Tax or Flat tax, at this point anything is better.
Forget the “What can we do to get the economy moving..” sh*t. Get rid of the IRS and watch the economy bounce back just on the mention of it.
My friend,
Evolution, not revolution. You are not going to win on a platform that says — “I will get rid of the IRS”. At least not now.
An alternative way of filing your taxes — THE FLAT WAY in parallel with the TRADITIONAL WAY would be the better way to go.
You could say — I propose the PRO-CHOICE TAXFILING METHOD ( We conservatives are pro-choice on almost everything except when it comes to killing babies ).
A tax payer will be given one of two choices:
* File the Traditional Way ( with all its accounting headaches )
* File the FLAT WAY ( no deductions for doing this and that ). Just a flat, single page form and the guarantee that if you do so, the IRS will NOT audit you.
Let that law be in existence for 10 years and we’ll see which one becomes more popular. I am willing to bet that the traditional method will (to use Newt Gingrich’s words) whither in the vine.
This has the added advantage of being a PRACTICAL REFERENDUM on what people really want.
EVOLUTION, NOT REVOLUTION.