Every politician favors marriage, family and improvements in the tax code.
Many routinely criticize the income tax as biased against marriage and families. Some go much further and claim that we could eliminate these biases by throwing out the current system and starting over with a flat tax or a national retail sales tax. While some of the charges against the income tax are valid, they are exaggerated. But fundamental tax reform will not eliminate the biases and could even make them worse. Armey says that the flat tax eliminates the marriage penalty, but this is incorrect.