Money (We need a fair Tax)

Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay
And your O.K.

Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands
And make a stash

New car, caviar, four star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team

Money get back
I'm all right Jack
Keep your hands off my stack

---- Pink Floyd


Are you tired of the taxation in this country?  I am.  I find it hard to understand how a "progressive" (not sure I like the term) and wealthy country can continue to have such backward, archaic and inefficient method to determine and collect taxes.

Think about how many ways we get taxed every single day.  There's highway taxes and tolls, goods and services, real estate, local city tax, county tax, state tax, and federal taxes to name a few.  Hell there is even death taxes. 

Here's the trouble.  We now have 48% of the country paying 100% of the taxes.  This allows the other 52% of non-tax paying citizens to vote for people and policies that raise our taxes.  Before anyone objects to this and states that the 52% pay their fair share through sales taxes I will agree on that point.  That is why there should just be a flat sales tax. 

If you buy it or use it you pay.  Simple, easy no more taxes to file every year from a personal perspective. 

I do know there will be losers if this were to happen.  They would be companies like H&R Block, IRS Agents, and accountants. 

I am not asking for the elimination of corporate taxes.  I believe we need them but I would restructure them to be more competitive with world markets in order to create a more internationally corporate friendly environment.

What say you?