You've swayed me on the "spending" tax. I get what you are saying. While it made sense to my brain I guess it would discourage anyone making less than $100K from "really" spending money. Forget about those under $20K. They wouldn't spend a dime. Okay I get it. Thank you. You actually changed my mind on that. Regarding the tax code. That right there is the issue. A flat tax would solve the "bulk" but the heavy lifting is all of the corporate and other tax codes that allow for massive deductions from multinational corporations and millionaire/billionaires. How to solve it though, no idea. Because I firmly am against the death tax. So all these kids who receive millions from daddy I don't think should be penalized because daddy theoretically already paid taxes on all of his earned money.