Flat Tax

You assume that a true democracy exists in the US? Please, the US is just as corrupt and has simply bastardized the democratic process in a way acceptable enough for the US populace not to do anything about it. Modern politics is about placating the masses, lying, deception, all in order to serve the interests of oneself and the donors aka, the ones doing the bribing. The US is no different than Russia or any country, except that the corruption used to be better hidden. As for your two form system. I read the article. And at the end it acknowledges that the reason the filing system became so complicated is because of 97 of meddling by politicians. Given time the same will happen to your flat tax. Also, I take it you have never lived and worked overseas because filing my US taxes from Korea has always required special consideration. I don't fill out W2 forms my income is also taxed by the Korean government. Your two form system isn't going to cut it for everyone, it's not as simple as you think because most people don't account for the lesser known circumstances of other citizens nor does it account for the tax laws of other countries. It's a lie that people pushing for a flat tax use to sell the idea. Your claims that the progressive tax is killing economic drive is ridiculous. There is no proof of that. In fact the US is still leading when it comes to economic strength worldwide. The flat tax won't make it more difficult to create loop holes because the people making the law are corrupt. I mentioned Russia earlier because it shows that the flat tax is just as susceptible to corruption. Anyone who thinks the US is some sort of bastion of justice and democracy is fooling themselves. The US has legalized bribery of government officials! How am I wrong about the idiocy of the general public and their being affected by what they will perceive as unfair. It's not just the US the world is full of oafs. Most people the world over don't really have the attention span to really figure out what is going with the government. If Americans really took an active consideration to what the government did then C-span would be the most watched network. It isn't. There a shows that interview random people on the street and demonstrate how little they know about anything. This happens in every country because people just don't care enough to figure out what's going on. This is part of the reason the media is the way it is and why sensationalism sells. The progressive tax panders to the basic feelings of the growing poor and much of the shrinking middle-class. If there's one thing people notice is that the rich are getting richer and everyone else is getting poorer and you aren't going to sell these people on a flat tax. It won't be a minority that will be angry. The other part to this idiot people observation has to do with the two parties. Democrats and Republicans. Both are idiots. Typically it's republicans that support the flat tax and Democrats who oppose it. Partisan politics are like two religions with both sides often blindly pledging loyalty to one side. It's an idiot fight that changes nothing and this flat tax is just another example of some nonsense fight. The current progressive tax was recently "reformed" by the republicans and it's a mess full of corruption enabling loopholes that many people are upset about with many saying that it overwhelming benefits the richest in the country while placing a huge debt on the country. The Republicans did that and yet it's the Republicans that want a flat tax? How's that gonna work out? It's like hiring the thief who broke into your house to change your locks. A republican wanting his party to change the tax code his party help break is idiocy. Changing the tax code will further piss off the Democrats and when the new flat tax fails in it's promises like every promise by any politician then its gonna piss off more people too. The rich are going to take advantage of everyone else because they have the means to do so. The progressive tax gives the illusion that the government is trying to do something about it. And even if you manage to get rid of all the corrupt lawmakers in some revolution the growing poor and the disgruntled shrinking middle class people are going to want reparations, they will want justice, they are going to want the progressive tax. And the upper class is going to give it to them because they know what's what and that it will pacify them.