[Quercus]

I'm familiar with the proposal. Its a rehash of the flat tax idea meant to make it more palatable. I want to say that Linder was on our local talk radio station one morning talking it up (though it may have just been a supporter.)

The last time a politician tried to push the flat tax on a national scale he was soundly defeated (Steve Forbes).

Its too bad though, our byzantine tax structure is just a nightmare of waste. Far too many smart kids going into the government created fields of tax law and tax accounting and not enough going into something useful outside of dealing with a bad tax code.

Not to mention the huge time burden placed on basically every adult in the US. How many lifetimes worth of manhours are burned for no reason every year just to pay taxes?

Anyway, this is probably starting to delve a little too close to the politics forum...