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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 1951543" data-attributes="member: 18914">If we are lucky, IF, we may get back to something like what Ronald Reagan was able to work - a simplified version of the current income tax system - with only perhaps 3 brackets - low of 5%, middle of 10%, and high of 15%.  That is still technically a "progressive" tax system but it isn't a bad compromise from a Conservative point-of-view.I personally believe that the income tax should be repealed because it provides a theoretically unlimited source of income for day-to-day activities to the Federal government - i.e. we should stop the beast by cutting off its food supply.  However, I consider the chances of that happening to be nearly zero so I am willing to find a reasonable compromise.  The "flat-ish tax" I mentioned above - or something like it - might be that compromise.</blockquote>