Although I pointed out one thing about Jerry Brown that's good, his support of the evil Drug War totally counters the advantages of putting him in office to institute a flat tax. DO NOT VOTE FOR JERRY BROWN! At least until he changes his tune on the Drug War.

Judge James P. Gray has an article about a flat tax. I've not read the whole thing, but I want to link to it so others can:

http://JudgeJamesGray.blogspot.com/2010/03/take-heart-proposed-tax-that-is-fair-by.html

Inmates bilk Uncle Sam for millions

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/15/inmate.tax.scam/index.html

Investigators say Monroe County jail inmates in Key West had been filing false tax return forms for jobs they never had as far back as 2004, and getting thousands of dollars a pop in refund checks.
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More than $14 million in fraudulent refunds were issued to prisoners in 2004, according to testimony before a House subcommittee five years ago. But the IRS blocked more than $53 million in false claims from prisoners that year.

As the investigation at the Monroe County continues, at least one inmate is still allegedly filing falsified tax returns, according to jail officials, even though he knows about the investigation. And the IRS has been cutting him checks. Jail officials, however, say they have intercepted the checks.

Ellsworth says that as a taxpayer he is angry that billions of dollars may have been stolen from the American people over the years.

Not content with ruining people's lives at the rapid rate they have been doing so, it seems there are new regulations headed down both barrels aimed at sucking up what they can so they can enrich the people in love with busy-work.

IRS starts mopping up Congress's tax-reporting mess
http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/09/smallbusiness/irs_1099_flood/index.htm

Instead of simplifying our evil tax code madness, the government has decided to layer on more paperwork to suck up people's time. No doubt as they do so, the businesses will also say that since this takes time for them to perform, it will mean higher prices for customers, thus passing along the cost to the rest of us.

I have to laugh that our govt. has regulations about amounts of fat one should eat, and guidelines on body to fat ratios. But frankly our government seems to be mostly fat itself! Hey you people who make me so mad I want to call you all DUMBASSES if you're going to make freaking jobs programs, at least have those jobs doing something beneficial for humanity and society instead of being parasites on us!

Like jobs that help the environment vs. create so much paperwork we chop down the forests? Like jobs that put gardens in inner-cities instead of making the cost of doing business there so high that businesses leave? Like jobs that check on the elderly who live by themselves, to do house and yard maintenance for them, instead of installing heartless machine overlords on their buildings that decided when they are going to freeze to death? Like jobs that help people realize that having zero, one, or two children is far superior to having 10? Like jobs that install — for free — energy collection apparatus on people's houses which let's them sell electricity back to the grid, once the installers (govt.) get's paid back? Like jobs that reduce needless complexity instead of create it? Like jobs that find the truth about drugs versus spreading evil lies about them?

I guess some people just can't create lives of hell for the rest of us fast enough. I guess some people just can't get to hell fast enough. That's what's going to happen to many, because they are doing what their father wants, drive people broke, frustrate them with endless bureaucracy, confuse them with baffling BS, etc…