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on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:38:07 PM
How can we propose and get a falt tax for the country? After re-reading Steve Forbes book I am more convinced then ever that it is the way to guarantee fiscal success for the country for the long term.
Now today the long term is about 3-5 years, if we are lucky. Politicians commiserate and cajole one another into one agreement after another that helps them and there specific constituents but often hurts the country as a whole(bridges in SC?). The bigger issue may be the reason we need Bob Dornan(R-CA) back and his work for term limits.
The president is limited to 2 terms why should reps an Senators be there for life? They then focus their whole life and efforts of keeping the job and often ignore what may be best for the entire nation. If during every election cycle we have a number of lame duck official they will be apt to act with good conscience and not in effort to keep their job.
Hopefully in the next ten years politicians will see the value of a flat tax, eliminate a lot of silly loopholes so the rich and middle each pay a fair share. Same fraction but they pay and can’t hide money in crazy deductions- send many tax attorneys back to ambulance chasing and let those brains focus on beneficial impact to the world and not on cheating the government out of pennies in some legal loophole.