Abolish the IRS! Don't you like the way Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas, thinks?

Yes. I like him. Go figure :-)

Lot of good ideas here .. rare for Answers. .. I like the abolish the IRS and go for a national sales tax only. Great stuff.

Cruz 2016!

A flat tax is not going to work, nor would it ever work. You might want to look at England and see what happened when they even tried to suggest it.

You have to realize that there are things that need to change within the IRS and the tax code, but a flat tax would not fix any of those issues. What if you were say making $30 k a year and all of a sudden you went from paying only payroll taxes to paying 15 percent of your income in income taxes. For many on the lower half of the income scale, that could mean any were from a 30 to 100 percent or more increase in taxes. Does that seem right to you? I know that currently the top 20 percent of wage earners pay nearly 80 percent of all taxes paid in this country and that does not seem right, but we have to come up with a better way, and the flat tax is not it.

Most people who ëarn" their income use the standard deduction do not even have to keep track of the charitable contributions, home mortgage deductions now. What make the tax code complicated is the rules for determining income for people who do not get their income from wages, not the fact the the tax rate varies with the amount.

You guys on the right are easily impressed. This is not exactly a new idea. Bob Dole ran on that, on a plan to abolish the IRS, when he ran for president in 1996. Cruz is just the latest in a long line of people, both Republican and Democrat, calling for the same thing.

Reducing the number of deductions. Yes. Creating a flatter tax. No.

If you create a national sales tax, you will still need an agency to collect and to investigate sales tax fraud.

Also, having a national sales tax would not have prevented the extra scurity of TEA groups by the IRS because area of law which the IRS had the authority to investigate TEA Groups applies to groups exempt from taxation. It dealt more with campaign finance than with income.

One good idea isn't enough to run a campaign off of. Although I do have to agree it makes more sense to abolish income tax and establish a national sales tax. As a citizen every transaction would remind you of how much the feds are spending. It would be MUCH harder to cheat on your taxes. It would be much easier to collect taxes (most businesses already collect a local/state sales tax so there is already a system in place). And everyone would be guaranteed to pay a "fair share". Also, obvious abuses of power (like the latest IRS attacks on certian groups) could be decreased.

The IRS will never be abolished as long as the democrats control the house or the senate, because that is their SS.

The Libs are after control of you finances your heath, what you eat, what you learn in school and the ignorant keep voting them into office for freebies and lousing their freedoms to succeed.

Whether it is flat tax, sales tax, or any other version we still need a revenue service to process and oversee. So call it what you want it is still got to be there .

We don't need smaller or bigger government we need efficient government.

Is Cruz even eligible to run, are republicans going to try to change the rules to suit themselves?

That wouldn't get rid of the IRS. Better to repeal the 16th amendment (the income tax) and go to a straight sales tax system on the end sale of goods, exempt only essential food items from being taxed. Then require a two thirds majority vote of congress to change the tax rate.

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