A simplified tax code gives lobbyists little to lobby about. At the turn of the century, government took 10 percent of the national income. Now it takes nearly 40 percent.
Low taxes means higher productivity and greater job creation.
Let's welcome any move to reduce our tax burden, whatever form it takes. Reduce Government by 80 percent Less than 2 percent of Americans are farmers, yet the Department of Agriculture adds still more bureaucrats. Before 1950, the government largely stayed out of the housing business. Now we have housing projects in all of our major cities. They have become sewers of crime and drugs.