You don't until voting day and then your best choice is don't sit at their table.

"... we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent."

True enough. But, in fact, the rate had reached 77 percent by 1918, just five years after Congress created its first, single-digit levy.

taxhistory.org

If so then don't waste it on a flat tax that's where income tax started. 7% of everything over some very high incomes $4000 a year which in 2013 terms was $100,000.) for the time, amounts. It's still an income tax and still fascist in nature. Only the end user consumption tax coupled with enforceable spending limits meaning no debt would be acceptable given the unacceptability of a government that can't be trusted with more than a dime in 2015 values.

Fair enough, I can see that you truly believe that Anarchy is a valid form of government. Let’s start with what we can agree upon:

No government welfare one bit what so every, you must support yourself or parish.
No government education system, we can do better for less.
No restrictions on freedoms, physical, financial or virtual.
No taxation on income, property or wealth - some form of income would be necessary to support our boarders.

Now, with anarchy…
We wouldn’t have local law enforcement or a judicial system. You wouldn’t have recourse for damages.
I could develop a swarm of drones that can be used for offensive purposes. Like killing you to take what you have because I like it.
You would spend that vast majority of your wealth defending what you have. I would become very wealth selling you systems to defend yourself.
We wouldn’t be not a country let alone a country I would wish to live in.
Under anarchy, we would fall to hostel governments.

I agree also with you but a flat tax is better then what we have today.

Ayn Rand stated that she felt that America got it correct with the Constitution and Bill of Rights but didn’t go far enough. She felt as though financial freedom needs to be included. Can we have a mulligan?

you are really good at this Plato stuff. I'll give you that and a point. But I don't follow that system. So I'm not bound by it's constraints. The rock still hurts.

Then you shouldn't have sat at the table.

Until it's replaced. Income tax is a left wing socialist fascist inspired control mechanism. Flat tax will do nothing to change that basic fundamental objective truth A is A,.

Government though I wonder about this one needs a budget to carry out it's purposes. The control of that is in the hands of the responsible citizens. Since none of them are voting anymore it's up for grabs. Why do i say that? Because the voting is rigged from candidate selection to candidate retirement. as a millionaire. Vote for someone or something else and it's given to the individual you opposed. Stolen by a crooked evil system. So...that IS our system and our shame. We could have voted differently but we spent too many decades choosing evil.

OR...There are only three things certain. One Birth, One life, One death per customer. Nothing is certain about taxes except they will go up.

Now I shall answer the question. Objectively. A few months ago we were approaching 18 trillion in debt. A few days ago I posted that without checking the facts. In fact we had passed 18 trillion and the clock now shows 18 trillion plus for a real thrill look at the time clock to 2019 or the real debt figures at the bottom. The dive is vertical. something has to give. Easy answer inflation, devaluation, debt repudiation and bread at $22 dollars a loaf. But your retirement fund will take a huge hit just like last time. Enjoy that last of bread..it's one tortilla month in your future. usdebtclock.org checked your retirement fund lately?

That's a pragmatic out. Pragmatism leads to relativism. In short the theory of 'no truth.' Now we're calling it historical mutations. Fine. It comes in various forms. For three people it is "That which serves the party or advances it's cause is the truth. For one other "What may be necessary today may not be so tomorrow...Therefore I may - nay, must - change under changed conditions tomorrow what I consider correct today. This is the Heraclitian Doctrine. The truth is mutable, there are no principles there are no absolutes. If tomorrow Obama wishes it then two times two is five.

Not a shred of objectivist here. Just a cup of Hemlock.

The first three were Lenin, Stalin, and the leaders of the Democrat Party. The second was Adolf Hitler. The last sentence was George Goebbels, but I switched Hitler for Obama.

It is the long trail of Plato, Kant Hegel, on to Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and the leaders of Socialism in the US today featuring George Lakoff and the secular progressives. That line of reasoning did not start with Aristotle and end with. It was 58 degrees F. at seven AM local time. "It ends with give me my orders and I will carry them out." "Shoot yourself." "Bang,":

There is no 'however.' A is A. Objectivist If i hit you in the head with this rock it will hurt. That is true today, it was true yesterday and it will be true tomorrow. A is A. Subjectivist. If i hit myself in the head with that rock it may or may not hurt and because it did nor did not today doesn't mean the same held true yesterday or wil lhold true tomorrow.

But your sentence does have a practical use. Subjectivism leads to dogmatism, the blind faith
that allows men to commit suicide upon order.

History in fact shows us no such thing.and never without reason. There is always a reason for those with the intellect and reasoning ability to go looking for the answer . Predictors I'll leave to the worshipers of the spirit world. These days not even weather forecasters can use that excuse.