I agree with you in principle, however, the flat tax primarily shifts the
tax burden from the wealthy to the middle class. I doubt that the majority
of the middle class would be very happy about that.


No sales tax, there's to many states that have them already and nobody
escapes. A flat tax with exemption for anybody below 35,000 has been
previously proposed and the numbers seemed top work. The problem,
homeowners will lose their mortgage deduction.

If there must be an income tax, I like the idea of everybody paying some
tax, since the country belongs to everybody and is supposed to be
protecting
everybody. .