My point, exactly.
Nice attempt a spin, but not quite, you expect that government will magically go on a reduction diet while the majority of the electorate perceives little tax burden. History demonstrates quite the contrary is true.
But ANY type of reform is going to be easier if you get the level of government spending down.
Easier tax reform perhaps. Just how do you intend to get government spending down with the majority of the electorate pushing for more largess from government on the backs of the minority of citizens.
70% of the voting public clamors for more from government looking for the top 40% of income earners/producers to foot the bill.
Getting Spending down is by far the more difficult tax under such conditions.
Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813). Scottish jurist and historian:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
Government spending is not going down until the majority of citizens perceive the tax burden that is placed on them.
You've got the cart before the horse.
You are going to get just as passionate a response to flat tax proposals in that they do not get rid of IRS intrusion into our personal lives.
Which is precisely a good reason to be against such proposals, as well as the fact the Flat Tax increases the majority of folks who do not perceive taxes by increasing the personal exemption bracket.
Furthermore, the Flat Tax maintains a VAT component which hides the tax burden from the view by embedding it in inflation.
I'll stick with going to an NRST that meets the standard of visibility as well as getting government intrusion our of our financial privacy.
H.R.2525
SPONSOR: Rep Linder, John (introduced 07/17/2001)
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.
Refer: http://www.fairtax.org & http://www.salestax.org