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View Poll Results: Which type of tax reform do you prefer and why?
Flat Tax 4 30.77%
Fair Tax 3 23.08%
Other Type of Reform 5 38.46%
No reform Needed 1 7.69%
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Old 02-25-2009, 06:54 PM
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Which type of tax reform do you prefer and why?
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I'm for an Consumption tax with certain comodities not taxed such as limited food, limited clothing and limited housing. Figuring out how to limit on these items would still be much less cumbersome than the tax code we have.

There could be different tax rates for different products and services.
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I'm really interested to hear from the person who said that no reform is needed.
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Flat tax all the way or the highway!
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I'm really interested to hear from the person who said that no reform is needed.
That would be me. While there are always minor reforms that can be done, I agree with the progressive tax and would not change it.

Also I used to rail against how complex the tax code is, and while I still believe some complexity should be removed, it's becoming a non-issue with improvements in technology.

Frankly I believe we have more pressing issues to work on before we start tackling tax code issues.
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other reform- just lower spending
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