RESOLVED, The United States should abandon the current tax system and adopt a flat tax rate of 10%

I'm going to number my opponents points for simplicity, and it might or might not be in relation to chronological order. 1) "The US goes bankrupt" A) Well first off I would say my opponent presents not a single source for this, 10% is more than you think. If my opponent is going to make this drastic claims about collapse I would like some warrants. B) All the evidence present suggests that this is simply not true, recall that Daniel J. Mitchell wrote in an article for the heritage society on august third 2003 in which he said that during the Reagan tax cuts, the kennedy tax cuts, and the tax cuts of the 20's tax revenue increased by over 70% each time, and all of those cuts were massive in size. Companies are much more willing to pay taxes and not try to cheat their way around them if it's low. This makes up for the loss of tax revenue as it has been shown. C) I would say that flat tax's encourage more business from abroad. The evidence I presented said that not only do new companies move in but old ones which left america to look for tax havens do also. We so create new jobs and help our economy. 2) "It's not that hard to file taxes (against my first point)" I would say, how do you know? The majority of people have errors on their taxes and don't know it. Many of the times you enter your taxes its simply a lottery, and since your violations of tax code aren't as large you don't have as much of chance of getting caught. But letting a few unlucky people get into trouble because they failed to understand tax law is not fair. It is more complex than it seems, again the evidence flies in the face of your claim. 3) (against my 2nd point) "The rich will still use swiss bank accounts" The amount of cheating will clearly by at some level proportional to the size of taxes. At 10%, even if there is some motivation to cheat the government there is far less and so in comparison I garner the greater benefits. Also look again the Mitchell article, analysis of the past has shown us that there is less of this cheating when taxes are lower and that this is an effective way of boosting government income. 4) "The only thing that increased the revenues in was the economic booms that were unrelated." The economic booms were unrelated? Please actually talk about the different examples I gave you instead of just saying, pssh it's all unrelated. And my opponent says that when Clinton raised taxes on the rich there was a surplus. But this simply does not have the backing of a pattern like my point does, for example George Bush passed a record number of tax cuts and still did not have a surplus. 5) "hating on Estonia" I would say that the US could use some more companies investing in it's economy now. There are other companies besides American ones who can invest in America. I'm not contradicting myself because companies come here because 1) The low taxes on face value provide a better deal, which looks good to stock buyers! 2) This gives the companies some reduced profit but airtight legality And even if you accept that argument I still get advantages off this point as: 1) Lowering the tax rate will encourage new companies who were not in America before and were intimidated by the high taxes not simply these giants who were already here and cheating 2) It encourages small business and entrepreneurship from people who don't know about these complex tax laws And so I affirm, and will clarify my case for voters in a more concrete way in future speeches.