[cableguymn]

can. should. will...

That is what I say.. The “experts” are protecting their jobs.

[Parmy]

And, why not?

Little Estonia has a flat tax of 25%. They have more money than they can responsibly spent. They are now going to reduce the tax to 18%, figuring that they will have even more money coming into the government's coffers due to business expansion.

[Gaffer]

That’s just a sampling of what tax experts. Horseshit [pardon my French]. Yeah, sure. I absolutely want to listen to and believe some ghoul who makes his money off the backs of the populace helping them navigate the published waters of IRS rules. Utter drivel.

[mtrott]

We absolutely could get rid of the IRS, as we know it! It’s called the FAIR tax, or national sales tax. There would only need to be some agency to make sure retailers were correctly charging the tax at the point of sale. And the best part is that all the States already have sales taxes, and have procedures to ensure that the taxes are properly collected. All you do is add the national sales tax onto transactions.

[JRandomFreeper]

Whaaaa....

Lets try it and see. If it doesn't work, we can always go back to it.

I imagine they are afraid of losing their phoney-baloney jobs over getting rid of the IRS.

CRUZ or lose!

/johnny

[taxcontrol]

Representative Apportionment. Assign to each Senator and Representative a cost based upon the amount of taxes to be raised. Bill each state for their two Senators and X number of Representatives. Let each state decide how to collect the funds. States pay their funds to the treasury.

No longer a need for the IRS.

[BitWielder1]

It's too big, too powerful, too costly, too political and it's corrupt.
If not abolish, at least shrink it, limit the scope and streamline.
A collection agency, with infrastructure to do just that and nothing more.
They can have an army of lawyers and forensic accountants but no SWAT teams.

[Tao Yin]

Stating that the problem is with congress because they write the tax law is misguided. I'm tired of the social planners that believe they can craft the perfect system that will make all of the little people behave properly.

This tax season was painful. I'm self employed with few expenses. I was thinking that next year that I should spend more, but then I realized that it is stupid to spend thousands of dollars on stuff that I don't really need so that I can save hundreds on dollars on taxes.

No matter what tax law they write, there will be unintended consequences. The grand social planners will always say, "But that's not what we wanted the little people to do!"

The only solution is to simplify the code and shrink the bureaucracy. Other than a flat tax (with no exemptions) or a national sales tax (with no fine print), we'll only be trading one mess for another. Anything that allows the social planners to play favorites or endlessly tinker will ultimately become a bloated mess.

Uncertainty about tax law is the bane of business. Every year when I do taxes, I call it going to Vegas. I know I'm going to loose, but I don't know how much until the end.

Any business should make decisions based on what's good for the real business, rather than what's good for the tax code.

A simple tax code with a minimal bureaucracy that stays simple will free up so much time, money, and resources that growth would be immediate and sustaining.

[Boogieman]

We got along just fine for 124 years with no IRS.

[SoConPubbie]

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[jimpick]

“”” If a lot of income goes unreported or taxes go uncollected, trust in the system breaks down, rates have to be higher, and the economy ails.”””

Must be a lot of trust in them now I guess.

Seriously this guy has so many things that just are not so in this article that I had to stop reading half way threw. Could not take the BS.

[EternalVigilance]

The fundamental reasons that an income tax is wrong have little to do with how flat the rate is.

You’ve got to pull it out by the roots, not prune it.

[servantboy777]

ABOLISH THE IRS!

This un-American, un-constitutional agency should never again be used as a political tool to intimidate and penalize hard working American citizens and or those with dissenting voices.

Enough is enough. The IRS was used during an election cycle to alter the outcome of an American election. What was done was illegal/immoral and a blatant attack on our way of life.

No if and buts, move to a simple, fair taxing system and stop penalizing American business.

[all the best]

Thou shall not steal. No ifs, ands or buts. No exemption for majority vote. Something conservatives need to get through their heads. Something Christians need to get through their heads. We have become a nation of thieves and it will not end well.

[eyeamok]

Taxes for Revenue are Obsolete:
http://www.garynorth.com/public/9036.cfm

[Svartalfiar]

(A flat tax per se would not necessarily be easier to administer than a progressive one with many rates but few deductions and credits. Everyone can read tax tables.)

Shows how little the author knows about math. There is no possible way a flat tax could not be simpler than a progressive tax, even if the progressive tax had zero deductions/credits. The most basic progressive tax is simply several 'flat' taxes, rates tiered based on income. Hence a long tax table. But a simple flat tax doesn't even need a tax table, all you have to do is multiply one number (income) by another (rate). And done.

[KarlInOhio]

That’s just a sampling of what tax experts

How many of those were K Street pimps, whoring out the tax code for $50 million for a chance to put your loophole into her?

[Arm_Bears]

Too bad I never took NR.

That means I can’t cancel my subscription.

[reasonisfaith]

If enough of the American people want it done, it will be done.

Not could be done, but will be done.

Get that straight.

[reasonisfaith]

Sorry to you political hacks but abolishing the IRS is going to be an election issue. You can’t make it go away.