I watched U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., talk about the deficit on the Charlie Rose television program. As all other politicians do constantly, he is using 19th- and 20th-century arguments and alternatives.
Am I the only one who understands that the biggest thing we can do to reduce (and possibly eliminate) the deficit is to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, and go to a tiered flat tax system that would affect every employee and every employer? No loopholes, no deductions — a flat tax — paid, for example, directly to the feds for disbursement to government.
Getting rid of the IRS and our current tax collecting system alone would save trillions of dollars.
What a start. Is there one politician out there with enough courage to seriously take up this discussion?
Dan Andruss, Washougal
