The one thing about a flat tax that EVERYONE! pays is that it eliminates the welfare cliff. It would smooth out the transition from welfare to work without that huge drop in income when your wages go over a certain number and the welfare cuts out. With a flat tax that is also paid on welfare benefits that cliff levels out and I would hope that would encourage people to get off welfare. My economist wife tells me that is what would happen. I’m sure many on this forum know much more about this than I do but it sounds great.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention that the economist wife of mine works for the IRS. She’d be happy to have her job abolished.