Manual

Build a Stronger America; Support the Flat Tax

Every time I get into an argument about taxes (which is plenty) the rationale for my opponents position is consistently, “the

rich can afford it” or some variation including the word “fair” or “the rich got their money by screwing the little guy”.

Invariably, my reply to these “arguments” entails explanation that shows how conscatory taxation actually decreases revenue

ow into government. Better and equitable systems of taxation have been proven to bolster those economies that have em-

braced them. Steve Forbes has written a ne little book, The Flat Tax Revolution, which provides excellent explanation and

examples supporting this system.

Even after showing that government tax receipts proportionally shifted further to the richest Americans after George W. Bush’s

tax cuts (39% of all income taxes paid by the richest 1% of wage earners under Bush after tax cuts, only 37% of all income

taxes paid by the richest 1% of wage earners in 2000, and only 19% was paid by the richest Americans when our top rate was

set at a criminal 91%. Source: IRS.), my opponents insist it doesn’t matter, and they insist it without explanation.

America’s tax model is not about helping the poor, reducing poverty, making education better, providing jobs, or for any other

altruistic motive.

The tax code is designed specically to engage America’s entrepreneurs and businessmen and encourage them to produce; all

the while giving them just enough line to create wealth, without so much freedom as to expand their inuence over American

culture. This venue, bureaucrats attempt to reserve for themselves.

It is not by accident that America’s government agencies are overwhelmingly staffed by people embracing a political ideol-

ogy which leans left. Bureaucracy is an institution which awards advancement, not for achievement or excellence as does the

private sector; it is an institution which awards advancement for loyalty and dedication to party principles.

Notably, it is those personalities which cannot compete in the arena, where excellence is supreme arbiter of reward, which