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>The flat tax would not make tax preparation any bit easier.

there are many way to 'define' a 'flat' tax. My way would be a fixed sum. Not a fixed rate. ( yes the rich pay the same as poor) This would ofcourse have it's own if/buts but it would eliminate 90%+ complexity.

The ideal situation would be be no income tax and many other forms of taxation.



A fixed sum is impossible. It would have to be so low that everyone could pay it, no matter how poor. It's basically a proposal to eliminate government (meaning anarchy, chaos, and inevitably the rise of some new order that will, of necessity, go back to a more rational system of taxation).




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