Simplify the Tax Code, Reduce the Budget, and Balance It

[Geee]

National Review:

Simplify the Tax Code, Reduce the Budget, and Balance It

 

In Washington, what passes for bold is revenue-neutral tax reform. In other words, half of the country will pay more in taxes and half of the country will pay less. The reward is supposed to be a simpler tax code and slightly lower rates.

 

I’ve often said that if revenue-neutral tax reform is all we’re for then I might as well just go home. No one, I mean no one, is ever going to knock on a door for the candidate that runs on the theme of revenue-neutral tax reform.

 

How did a zero tax cut become the Republican dogma? Is that really all we’re for?

 

Conservatives need to be more boldly for what we are supposedly for — lower taxes and smaller government. Real conservatives not only believe in a balanced budget, but we seek to balance a much smaller budget.

 

[Valin]

:

Simplify the Tax Code, Reduce the Budget, and Balance It

 

In Washington, what passes for bold is revenue-neutral tax reform. In other words, half of the country will pay more in taxes and half of the country will pay less. The reward is supposed to be a simpler tax code and slightly lower rates.

 

I’ve often said that if revenue-neutral tax reform is all we’re for then I might as well just go home. No one, I mean no one, is ever going to knock on a door for the candidate that runs on the theme of revenue-neutral tax reform.

 

How did a zero tax cut become the Republican dogma? Is that really all we’re for?

 

Conservatives need to be more boldly for what we are supposedly for — lower taxes and smaller government. Real conservatives not only believe in a balanced budget, but we seek to balance a much smaller budget.

 

 

 

 

(putting on my Libertarian Propeller Beanie )

1. I LOVE this!!! This is why I worked for Steve Forbes twice.

 

 

2. "Trends That Cannot Continue....Won't"

Herb Stein

 

3. To do this, or anything similar will be World War 3 on steroids Make no mistake it will not just be Left V Right, it will be us (the great unwashed ) V Washington DC. It will be long...it will be very very nasty...it will be very very bloody. And it will happen (See #2). Because to many people have gotten used to getting stuff from DC.

 

4. The large top down bureaucratic model, worked (after a fashion) in the XXth century. But it has gotten to big...to intrusive...to expensive...and to slow.

 

5. "First You Win The Argument, Then You Win The Vote."

Margaret Thatcher