Originally published November 1 2003
If Iraqis Can Have A Flat Tax, Why Can't Americans?
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Flat Tax has been put into place in Iraq, and it begs the question: if Iraq can benefit from a Flat Tax, then why can't we as American taxpayers -- who are largely paying to rebuild Iraq, by the way -- have a Flat Tax, too?
A Flat Tax is simple, easy to calculate, and it eliminates the massive Army of accountants, lawyers and tax consultants who benefit from the complexities of the current system. Filling out your taxes should be no more difficult than answering a few questions on a form the size of a postcard.
In fact, the only reason we accept the current tax code, with all its complexities and contradictions, is because that's the way it's been. If we had all been living under a Flat Tax in the USA for the last decade, and suddenly legislators proposed that we shift to the current tax code, the people wouldn't stand for it.
So why do we accept it as "the way it is" right now?
Analysis: Deploying the Flat Tax in Iraq has some in the U.S. questioning why we can't have one here, too.
The flat tax, long a dream of economic conservatives, is finally
getting its day -- not in the United States, but in Iraq.
Iraq has a flat tax, and the 15 percent rate is even lower than Forbes
(17 percent) and Gramm (16 percent) favored for the United States.
During the more than three decades of Baath Party rule, Hussein ran a
centrally controlled economy with most large businesses owned or
operated by the state.
Bartlett, once an aide to Kemp and now with the National Center for
Policy Analysis, said the model for Iraq should be Russia, which in 2001
set a 13 percent flat tax on individual income.
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