"Clean Step" tax simplification: retort to Flat Tax nonsense [View All]

[oscar111]

Sure, simplify taxes. But not by using bushes outrageous flat tax.

Our method could be called "Clean Step".

Step, because we keep the progressive step-wise increase on higher incomes.

Clean, because we would SIMPLIFY by removing the thousands of cluttering adjustments to taxes. Like the deductions, and rebates, exemptions,... and i dont recall half of them.

Currently the IRS booklet is both laughable and insane.
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Idea #2 -->
BEYOND CLEAN STEP -- NO STEP TILL AT HIGH INCOMES { "High Clean Step"}

Personally, i would get all taxes from the top 10 % , as i read it was done before WW2. This year, did not Gen. Wes Clark propose shifting ALL tax from the middle to the upper class?

So this is both a mainstream idea because it HAS been done, and because it has been revived by Gen. Clark.
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Recap of the first, main idea here:
When bush says "Flat Tax", we can reply, "No, we want "Clean Step taxes"."