Americans for Tax Reform

Tax Reform would allow wealthy people to be taxed at the same rate as impoverished people. It means that things should be harder for people making $10,000 to $20,000 a year and easier for people making $100,000 to $1,000,000 a year. Not only should those making $10,000 to $20,000 a year pay more in taxes, but they should receive fewer services.

Grover Norquist head of the organization entitled Americans for Tax Reform, and recently wrote an op-ed discussing their strategy for achieving this "reform." "The Bush administration -- wisely -- has not proposed fundamental tax reform in a single piece of legislation. But the president has been taking deliberate steps toward such reform with each tax cut. There are five steps to a single-rate tax, which taxes income one time: Abolish the death tax, abolish the capital gains tax, expand IRAs so that all savings are tax-free, move to full expensing of business investment rather than long depreciation schedules and abolish the alternative minimum tax. Put a single rate on the new tax base and you have Steve Forbes and Dick Armey's flat tax. . . .

In crafting its agenda for economic reform, the Bush administration has the luxury of being able to think and plan over a full eight years. This is because the 2002 redistricting gave Republicans a lock on the House of Representatives until 2012 and the Founding Fathers gerrymandered the Senate for Republican control."

It is pleasant to see Mr. Norquist openly admit that his party has realigned the districts to ensure a continued Republican domination of the Federal Government, but I would advise him not to count his duckies before they hatch.