I agree. Once you start with the exemptions and deductions you’ve opened the door and it won’t stop there.
Keep it fair. A flat rate for everyone. No deductions or exemptions. Everyone pays the same rate. It is simple, fair and you avoid all of the special interests and lobbying.
Wrong. A flat rate income tax is still an income tax. There should be no income tax whatsoever. The "progressive income tax" is a Marxist abomination.
Income taxation is wrong for so many obvious and valid reasons, I presume any conservative who has educated himself is well aware of this. But here are a just few:
If there is to be any federal taxation at all, the taxes should be consumption based. Yes, sales taxes.
At least then, those who consume the most end up paying the most taxes, and that's about as fair as taxation is ever going to be.
The income tax was fomented on the People by so-called "progressives" who said it would only be for the ultra-rich, and it has been systematically shifted onto the middle class ever since. The progressives lied.
Income taxation is nothing short of fractional slavery, whether flat or otherwise.
Ted Cruz should stand strong here and make the abolition of the IRS a central policy of his campaign.
It's about time for the People to hear some fresh, new ideas for removing the yoke which we have labored under for a good century or so.