Flat Tax and Health Care: Taking Away Government's Power?

I was just reading the article below about how one politician or another is thinking about doing away with tax-exempt status for health insurance that's provided by employers.

I'm no fan of employer-based health insurance, as I think it has remolded the entire health system in a bad way. I mean, the top-end admin costs just to administer such plans for employers (human resources departments have burgeoned because of it), and then the burden it places on doctors and others who provide health care (their admin staffs have exploded just to make sure they are paid) add exponentially to the cost of just seeing a doctor for a cold. And they don't pay it, we do.

But it is the way of health care now, and the politicians are looking for more creative ways to tax the piss out of us. Health care is on the plate, and they're trying to fix the overspending economic mess THEY caused by taking away the tax-exempt status of health care. They've already done it with health care spending accounts, now they're looking at the plans themselves.

One might think politicians just don't want anyone to have health care.

But I digress.

My thought actually is to take away politicians' power by removing their authority to tax individual things. Enter the flat tax.

If we have a flat tax, doesn't that mean that all deductions go away? But doesn't it also mean that politicians can no longer monkey with the tax code they use hammer us all the more? Seems like it to me. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Of course they can still invent new taxes, but the point is that those new tax proposal will have to see the light of day through congressional debate, rather than being hidden in a 2000-plus page abomination like the health care bill.

So if a flat tax takes away government's power - here's to it!

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