Reply #10: Steve King is an idiot

[asolarski]

The suggestion that we can abolish out tax collection bureaucracy by instituting a sales tax in lieu of income tax demonstrates either incredible stupidity, dishonesty or both. So with a sales tax what, we are all on the honor system and we only need a lock box address to which we mail our tax checks? Maybe one secretary to open the mail and bring the checks to the treasury? No auditors, no enforcement division no administrators, no bureaucracy? To collect taxes from 300+ million taxpayers?

So what, we abolish the IRS and start the STA (Sales Tax Administration) because it was just that specific acronym that was the issue? How funkin stupid are these people and those who vote for them?

The same goes for a flat tax. So simple just one rate. Because progressive tax brackets make it too hard for morons to do more than one long multiplication problem in a year? See with a flat tax there will be no more deductions, exemptions, credits, etc. Until the lobbyists implement deductions, exemptions and credits. The complexity of our tax code has nothing to do with whether the rate is flat or not. And most of us would agree that many deductions are perfectly legitimate, for elder care, charitable deductions, etc.

We should constantly work on improving the tax code period, but with an economy this size there is no simple fix only simple minded voters looking for one.