I figured what the heck. Not once was I thinking of the tax code. What I made, I made. What the government wanted they took. In the end, what remained to me still added up to a very tidy sum.
People save for retirement because it is the smart thing to do.
If you don't do the smart thing, you shouldn't expect the rest of the country to bail you out. Provides sufficient income to run the government, and is accepted by the general population. I'm only familiar with one flat tax proposal, the famous 17 percent one proposed by Mr. Forbes. If that isn't our present tax system, I don't know what is. Let's stop penalizing success and develop a tax system that doesn't promote cheating, favoritism and dishonesty.