Hey Congress, Fix the "Dysfunctional" Tax System!
With Americans having put another tax filing season behind themselves, the National Taxpayers Union leads a coalition of organizations urging Congress to get off the dime and implement real tax reform. One of those organizations is Americans for Fair Taxation, which supports the FairTax. Legislation (H.R. 25) to implement the FairTax would replace the current income tax and payroll tax with a non-regressive national sales tax, according to NTU's press release. John Berthoud, NTU president, says, "The income tax is an economic travesty against hard-working Americans . . . Along with their taxes, individuals and businesses endure compliance burdens amounting to $265 billion, or an additional 22 cents on every dollar collected."
Last week (April 12), we growled that either the FairTax or a flat tax were far preferable to the current tax system. So we support NTU in its efforts to get Congress to pass tax reform. In the meantime, Congress needs to reduce its inclination to spend ever larger amounts of taxpayers' money.