My comments on tax policy
2007 04 12 Thursday, Mitt Romney, Taxes, My Thoughts for Him.

The current voluminous and excessively complex tax code-- indecipherable by the ordinary worker or corporate executive--is the tsunami-like driving force behind corporate and special-interests lobbyists. Yet lobbyists are blamed by the socialist-leaning liberals for promoting corporate, greedy capitalism at the expense of the poor and hard-working middle classes, thus supplying such liberals with the ammunition they need (a) to push for more government usurpation of individual responsibility, and (b) to impose tighter regulations that will ultimately lead to stifling the free markets and the dynamic economy, just as we have seen demonstrated in Europe - especially in France and Germany.

Why not thoroughly educate the public, and then ask for a national referendum allowing voters to have a voice in whether or not to replace the present tax code with the Fair Tax (as delineated and analyzed with clarity by Neil Boortz)? If the Fair Tax were to pass, then our elected representatives would no longer feel compelled to "bring home the pork to their communities" or to pass legislation benefiting one or more of their top corporate donors--in order to get reelected. The Fair Tax is also fair toward families and the poor, inasmuch as it would, I surmise, reimburse taxes on basic food, clothing, shelter and health care expenses based on the family income, size of the family, and geographical cost-of-living estimates.

Go, Mitt! Study Steve Forbes' flat tax and Neil Boortz' Fair Tax. Refine the particulars and explain, explain, explain, . . .over and over again why it would be in the best long term interests of everyone to make government more efficient, more answerable to the people, and less bureaucratic by scrapping the tax code and replacing it with a politically neutral and socially-fair Fair tax--then proceed to take on the other superfluous bureaucracies and ask the people of this nation to support you by telling their congressmen to support your reforms. Talk to the people over and over again just as Ronald Reagan did. Say "I need you, my fellow Americans, to notify your respective representatives and senators and tell them that you want them to pass HR 25." Is it not better for the elected officials to listen to the people directly than through the special-interests lobbyists? Such lobbyists would not have a dog in this fight, were it not for the current incomprehensible, lobbyist-laden tax code.