Flat tax...Flat tax...Flat tax from the very rich to the bottom..... equalize the playing field for everyone .....corporations..... especially those that hide their wealth off shore ....and lets not forget the bureaucrats !

Many years ago I was a private contractor to the government....the U.S. Navy. Around 1980 congress inacted the Guarantee Payment Act....guaranteeing private contractors to the fed payment between 30-45 days...if not they would add 1 percent per annum to your bill. If you gave the fed a discount ....say between 5-10 percent if paid between 30-45 days your bill(s) would go to the top of the pile of bills the fed had to pay. But this didn't happen ! Why you might ask yourself....well what really happened was the fed put all small bills on the bottom of the payment pile and paid off the multibillion dollar contractors because 1 percent of say 7 billion dollars is a lot more than my measly 100-300 dollar amounts.I had my monies tied up in overhead, payroll, insurance...on and on. It eventually got so bad that I had to shut my doors...this is after my father and I worked for over 25 years to get the business where it was in 1980. At the time I closed down the Navy (fed) owed me over 16 thousand dollars in unpaid bills ! That year I refused to pay my business taxes both state and federal. What I got in return was an I.R.S. tax auddit and pulled into tax court ! I represented myself...no attorney at all. I took all of my accounting books into the court. I basically told the judge that I would pay in full every cent I owed on my state and my federal taxes as soon as the fed paid me with interest the monies that were owed me....some of which was over 3 years old! The judge agreed and ruled in my favor. Most but not all of the Navy's money eventually got to me. But what I did get in return for showing up the I.R.S. in court that day was auddits by them for almost 7 years! In the end .....in retrospect the Navy and the government lost out because they went months with no repairs to their equipment. The service that eventually came to them did so from Los Angeles to San Diego...charging them a bunch just to travel there, and we ended up with a business that was no more...after 25 years of service. All this because some bureaucrat cut corners to pay off the big guys !

How right you are in all you say.  I've always wondered how anyone could work for the IRS and have a consicence.  Well, they don't have a consicence.

Even in the bible it states that after 7 years a debt should no longer be due due to forgiveness and such, but you know they never forget or forgive, for all they do is sell your debt to a collection agency who buys it pennies on the dollar and then the collection agency works hard trying to collect it for years and years to come.

I myself own only my home, and you are correct, if I were to stop paying the yearly taxes on it, it would be hell to pay in many ways, that is why, I live in what many would consider a dump, yet it's paid for.  Now before I die, if my wife should go before me, I've got plans to give it to a family who is homeless, if God willing, and have kids.  I'm not asking for a red cent.  All I request in return is that I remain living there and for them to take care of me until my death.  Then all they have to do is call Science Care who I've already donated my body to upon my death.

I saw on TV the other day about an 88 year old business owner has left his business to his employees.  He was told that he could sell it for millions of dollars, but he said no to all that.  His employees to him were like family and now that is what I call an act of God which is within the man that not many can do, no matter how much money that may have already accumulated.

You are so right on about what should be done, but I look at this way.  The majority of our leaders are lawyers, and how many are going to make laws that may deny themselves some pork at the taxpayers expense?  They aren't about the kill the golden goose that has been laying golden eggs for quite a long time.  That is why I truly believe no lawyer should ever be in position of making laws when it come to the people.  For they are not going to pass laws that restrict themselves.  That's why tort reform is always brought up but that's all.  It's just brought up.  They need clients and who better than a doctor who as as much if not more money than they do.  You can't sue a poor man who has nothing.

The wrong people are always being voted in.  Why?  Because they know how to make money.  We need people who are honest, truthfull and not greedy and power hungry.  They are out there, but how many of them have the money to run for any office?  Very few.   Like one statement in the Bible that says,  "No one listens to a poor man."   How true those words are and yet truth has nothing to do pertaining to our government.  Unless the truth points to them, then they are the truth and the rest of us are just a small group amongst the poor and ignorant.  Why do you think government is really trying to play down the tea party movement.  They ingnore it because it's to much truth in one place and they can't stand the heat, that is why they keep bashing it and the people that are in it, no matter what level of class one is or political party one is registered as, if you are a tea partier you are a radical to them and they will never change until we change them out of office in all levels of our country.  The IRS as you said, has grown to a monster, within the government and our monster government is about to shove health care down our throats no matter what we do or say or how we voted in Mass.

It's going to get pretty hairy out there and we've just seen the beginning.

God bless

Frank