Reply #44: re: de facto super majority

[BrettStahIndy]

"Get rid of the de facto super majority currently required to appoint judges, and what's to stop a future Democratic administration with a Senate majority from packing the courts with judges that reflect its ideology?"

You mean like FDR did? the President picks whom to nominate, and the Senate either confirms or not. If the Senate is amenable to the president's nominees, then the court will be "packed". If the Senate is not, then the president will have to try again with new nominees.

And a pure flat tax will never be passed, because it'd be too regressive. But some modified plan that had a big personal deduction ($20,000-$30,000 per person), and that got rid of the regressive payroll taxes, which hit the working poor hardest (and the Republicans never include when discussing tax rates)? That may be extremely simplified AND still be progressive-ish, and allows the working poor to bring home more money each paycheck.