boedicca
Uppity Water Nymph from the Land of Funk
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Fair and flat taxes don't necessarily mean increasing the overall tax burden in relationship to GDP.
Our current morass is due to government at all levels growing far faster than either population growth or inflation would justify. The Federal government alone has increased by 25% as a ratio of GDP in the first 18 month of the Obama Administration. This simple distortion is sucking the oxygen out of the private sector recovery. If we just rolled back federal spending to 2007 levels (hardly hardship levels), the recovery could begin in earnest.
Our current morass is due to government at all levels growing far faster than either population growth or inflation would justify. The Federal government alone has increased by 25% as a ratio of GDP in the first 18 month of the Obama Administration. This simple distortion is sucking the oxygen out of the private sector recovery. If we just rolled back federal spending to 2007 levels (hardly hardship levels), the recovery could begin in earnest.