>>Take a trip to HAWAII and spend some time on Oahu and get a feel for
what such a system has done
Been there, done that.
However, I don't think your conclusion follows. You been
reading The Rich and the Super Rich lately? <g>
I understand some of your points under the 43% heading,
but I still don't see why a good deal of it doesn't
go away under a genuine flat tax. Guess I'm tax illiterate
at that level (thank goodness!).
Although I would certainly like the complexities of the tax
code to go away, and I think you understate the economic
direct savings from that considerably (in the long run),
I'm MUCH more interested in, first,
fairness, by which I mean everybody pays the same
rate on any kind of income (I do NOT mean that
you should transfer some of your wealth to me just
because you got more, which is the effect of graduated
scales, or vice-versa, which is often the effect of
tax preferences), and second removing the tax code
as an implement of social engineering and economic
distortion.
Boy, you can spend a lot of time arguing moot points,
can't you?
You are one hard guy to get into a good scrap with,
though <G>.
BTW, just who is this "THEY" fellow?
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