There is simplifying the tax code, and there is eliminating progressive taxation/introducing regressive taxation (like your Herman Cain sales tax there). The fo

There is simplifying the tax code, and there is eliminating progressive taxation/introducing regressive taxation (like your Herman Cain sales tax there). The former is generally agreeable, the latter implies a set of beliefs about how government ought to work which I believe need to be fought tooth and nail. This rhetoric is disingenuous, because flattening taxation isn't really about simplifying it, it's about shifting the burden further towards the poor.