Quote:Considering the bottom end of that income bracket pays little or no income taxes while the high end of the spectrum pays almost all of it, you'd have an uprising from those "champions" for the poor and middle class at daring to suggest everyone pay a set percentage. 

 

Even the Fair Tax detractors will call it an unfair burden on the poor despite the fact it's really not. 

 

The problem with the Fair Tax or other concepts similar to it is the fact that it would pretty much eliminate a federal bureaucracy that's not going to go anywhere.  The IRS power has grown and expanded over the past several years, and now incorporates managing the entire healthcare system thanks to the ACA.  There's no way to disband that, and you you'll never get the necessary support to abolish the IRS in congress.  It's a shame, but there just aren't enough supporters of that movement in positions that matter to make it work. 

 

There's more support today than a few years ago, nothing happens over night. But as the economy gets worse and taxes inevitable increase with inflation people will begin to look for an alternative. The Fair Tax is a possibility, certainly not the only one but on a national level it's the only one with any kind of ground game today. 

 

Reforming the tax code will do nothing, we must replace the tax code.

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