Your simplified explanation of the simplified tax scheme is far more attractive than the current system to be sure, but then absolutely anything could be construed to be more attractive than the current system. Why is it fair to have any exemptions? If the tax is fair, then it is fair for everyone. This use of exemptions is one of those soft points noodle spines will compromise for a deal down the road. Exemptions for business to encourage more jobs or exemption expansions for middle class to reduce the number of tax burden on the middle. I don't care if its 5%, its a burden on all or on none. Sorry poor man. Sorry disabled. You have to vote responsibly too and the tax consequence of thirty cents on every dollar pains even the rich.

Couch potato voters wil not fathom this story or its merits..Have to do a better job of getting across to the first time visitor what Soros, Hedge Funds, Regulators, and politicians have to do with one another and why they should care. I know, you can only expose the information, you can't make them consume it. However, you can make knowledge acceptable even desirable and that is the great failing of the conservative forces. We're not selling to Frisco and Berkeley city councils. We are selling to Mr. and Mrs. Public. Answering the nuts disallows the nuts' propaganda from successfully misinforming that half interested couch potato too involved with his or her job/family/fresh beer to dig into the hidden truths.

Yes, that's excellent cherry picking of talking points. Now let's talk about the debt increased under those same timelines and more important than presidencies, congresses which wrote and majority approved that debt increase in multitudes of bills. It isn't about debt ceilings, it is about debt.

Shirking your social responsibility onto third parties like the government does not satisfy the responsibilities of benevolence. The effect is vastly more harmful than helpful, and increases power to power brokers. Think!! Libs have the fortitude to call big business greedy and evil!?! while applauding the powers of tyrants, deceivers who keep the public believing they have helped or can help. They only destroy wealth and bring everyone's standard of living down. The're fine with destitution as long as we're equally destitute. Mau, Che, etc., slaughtered millions for equal suffering and failed because they created another elite class worse than the former. A little socialism is like a little AIDS.