i somehow figured you'd chime in.           ...& so be it          (...it's all good when we're talking....)

no doubt u can itemize the differences, more power to you and your abacus, Ross.  Rings around me all day with pragmatism o plenty~as it should be. But "flattax"?  It’s not like that.  WE are overtaxed…..period. Ha-ha charade, f#cking Whigs with play-ball-gigs have been setting the GNE, GDE, (GNP, GDP) & their ratios (the bar) too damn high; it’s only ever been so big a pie, so high a sky, & no amount of ice’ll sway me.

my tax plan is simplistic, no bout a doubt it, Rossy-Baby.  But the taking money thingy is broken. It doesn’t work anymore, & has gone madly awry, admit it or not, there's no more gravitational pull, ..E Pluribus Unum

it's why ancient thinkers could predict the end of meaningful civilization:  they knew greed then and figured people would continue to fuck a lot.  they did the math;  it wasn't all magical myth, smoke & mirrors, nope...