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thats insane. huge numbers of conservatives (everyone i know) want the irs gone and a flat tax. sorry to burst your bubble.

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• bpeebles 13y ago
  That is mostly true. So they oppose most things that make our current style of taxation--mildly progressive with a lot of deductions. So they want to make it as painful as possible for Americans so they can try to get what they want.
• bbanyc 13y ago
  A "flat tax" means moving from the current 10%, 15%, ..., 39.6% rates to a single tax bracket. Tax brackets are one section out of thousands in the Internal Revenue Code and one line on the 1040. We could move to a flat tax and still have the current overcomplicated mess of deductions, credits and penalties in place, and that's what takes up most of the time and effort.
  • testrun 13y ago
    There are different types of flat tax[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax]. With true rate flat tax there are no deductions. I believe when most people talks about flat tax, they think of true flat rate.
• lmm 13y ago
  > huge numbers of conservatives (everyone i know) want the irs gone and a flat tax. Yes - because filing is so complex. If filing were simple, people probably wouldn't mind. So a complex tax filing system makes people lean conservative, and therefore vote conservative. So it's in the interests of conservative politicians for the tax filing process to be complex.