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I find it interesting that no radical approaches were asked. I wonder, for instance, how people would feel about a VAT tax or flat income tax.
by laujen 16y ago
I find it interesting that no radical approaches were asked. I wonder, for instance, how people would feel about a VAT tax or flat income tax.
- natrius 16y agoThe only proposals for a "national sales tax", which was listed, have been VATs.
- philwelch 16y agoI think it's a good choice to only allow non-radical options. Everyone knows that going full-tilt libertarian and making spending cuts that would never even conceivably pass would eliminate the deficit; it's more realistic and illuminating to see what can be done within the realm of the possible. "Politics is the art of the possible." --Bismarck "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." --John Kenneth Galbraith