... if the government wants to increase tax rates and disallow deductions, they should look the American taxpayers (i.e., not you or other welfare queens like you, zzfart) straight in the eye and tell 'em that, instead of trying to be sneaky with a highly complex alternative tax that most taxpayers do not really understand.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence