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Is making taxes "fair" the answer? Congressman John Linder's FairTax legislation would change the method used to collect taxes without changing the amount. Is this what the American taxpayer really needs?(TAXES)
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Although tax season has come and gone once again, the various proposals for tax reform are still with us. These tax-reform plans, even though they appear outwardly to be quite different, have one thing in common that dooms them from being taken seriously by advocates of liberty and less government: they are all revenue-neutral plans seeking the most fair and efficient way to fund the federal government's ever-increasing, multi-trillion-dollar budgets.
The current federal tax code found in the 20 volumes of Title 26, "Internal Revenue," of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations is a complex, intrusive monstrosity. With its progressive ...
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