(Washington Post Wonkblog) Ted Cruz’s flat tax couldn’t even work in your imagination

Washington Post Wonkblog ^ | 03/25/2015 | Matt O' Brien

[BerniesFriend]

ok..if it’s in the wapo..it must be true...

[demshateGod]

We really should just ignore the Left Wing Media.

[mykroar]

My wildest dreams decimate the gov't by about 80%, so yeah - it could work.

[PROCON]

Hmm, if Ted Cruz isn’t a threat, why are the attacks increasing?

[KC_Lion]

Okay, your right, the Best thing to do is the Kill the 16th Amendment Entirely.

Burn it out of the Constitution.

[pepsionice]

Basically....the President would just issue an executive order and the IRS would create the flat-tax and that would be the end of the discussion. You won’t require congress or the senate to approve this. Go ask President Obama....he’ll tell you executive orders are best tool for this type of situation.

[Crazieman]

If the Compost is against it, I’m for it.

[Vaduz]

So the WP likes the lefts idea of tax and spend they like the notion of the deeper the hole the better idiots on the march.

[Alex Murphy]

But reality is a lot tougher than some tax models. A flat tax would just be a colossal giveaway to the rich—and maybe even take away for the poor—and that doesn't help the economy much. Just look, for example, at Rick Perry's version of this.

What a crock. It can't be a giveaway if the government never collects it, unless liberals insist on defining wealth as the government's money that just happens to be in your bank account.

[cdcdawg]

The Beltway meme is to conflate Cruz’s use of the word “imagine” with the John Lennon song. The little girlie-boys over at National Review seem to have been the first. My guess is that we have a few more days of this idiocy, before they move on to some other inanity.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Wow, imagine that. Nayhsayers of conservative policy in the
WaPo.

[liberalh8ter]

Carry that water.....journalism is dead.

[NorthMountain]

A flat tax would just be a colossal giveaway to the rich

"DAMN the rich. Damn them all to hell ..."

It's really amazing how quickly leftism of any stripe devolves into greed and envy.

I just checked. Both of them are still among the "Seven Deadly Sins".

[Timber Rattler]

Hmmmm...I don’t remember a similar reaction to Obama’s “hope and change” mantra when he first unveiled it in 2007 as an absentee, freshmen Senator with no real accomplishments to speak of....

[ex-snook]

Correct me if I am mistaken but my understanding is that the Flat Tax is not middle class friendly. So why would any GOP candidate embrace it?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/layoffs-at-the-washington-post-amid-budget-shortfalls/139644

Gee...you would think that this genius would use his economic mastery on his own company (snicker)

[Dead Corpse]

Matt O’Brian pointing out, once again, that Leftists are completely incapable of understanding basic economics and how the real world actually works.

[Dead Corpse]

In mine, 90%. Article 1 Sec 8 is a REALLY short list.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Figures he’d start off this article with the liberal Mantra to communism: Imagine, which John Lennon later regretted writing which of course libs ignore.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/28/lennon-was-a-closet-republican-assistant