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Imagine yourself a hard working citizen of the U.S, working overtime and advancing in your career. You get punished by the IRS because you don't lead a sedentary lifestyle. What lesson does this teach, are we supposed to be lazy?

The current system established in 1913 by a constitutional amendment, has become outdated. Furthermore, it is an infeasible, unenforceable morass.

Every good economist, conservative or liberal, from Keynes to Lockwood, has agreed on the three principles of good taxation: Simplicity, Equity, and Efficiency

When it comes to Simplicity, we can all agree that the current tax code, with over 480 forms and 8 billion pages of codified law, is anything but simple. In fact, each year, it takes over 5.8 Billion taxpayer hours to comply. In fact, the Flat Tax has often been referred to as the "Post card" tax system because filing returns would be on 2 postcard sized forms once a year.

The second principal is Equity. The current system obviously is unfair......

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