Selling the Income Tax

Neil Bortz did a clever bit on the Fair Tax by reversing the situation; he pretended the Fair Tax was in place and that Congress was trying to sell us on our present income tax, trying to put a good spin on withholding, taxing anything that moves, preparing an annual tax report, the abusive powers of the IRS.   Every time you thought it couldn’t get worse, he brought up another wacko provision of our tax system that we are so inculcated in that we can be frustrated but not outraged as we should be.

Clearly, we’re fighting the war wrong.  We should bring back the Army and send in the IRS.  The terrorists would be gone in a week.