I thought Cain’s 999 was a cop-out; he used to support the Fair Tax. We need to stop taxing productivity and tax consumption.
End the Income Tax, repeal the 16th Amendment and enact the Fair Tax. You get to keep all you earn and pay taxes only when you make retail purchases of new goods.
The federal government was about the right size when it was mostly funded by the excise tax on alcohol. And Prohibition would not have been possible if the income tax hadn’t been introduced to replace the missing taxes from booze.