> Get rid of sales tax, property tax, exemptions, IRAs, 401ks, short capital gains, long capital gains, medicare, state, all of that bullcrap. Annualized, non-annualized, credits for having an EV on the 4th day of the second Tuesday while being a fisherman, married and single filing differences, end all of that.
I agree with your overall point of simplifying taxes by merging more things into income tax, but some of the taxes you mentioned are levied by local governments to fund themselves. The United States has a federal system; it would be a much bigger change to centralize all of the funding.
> The United States has a federal system
That doesn't prevent there being a single point of collection and distribution.
I... don't understand how that excuses complexity?
what stops "local governments" from applying same type of tax as higher levels? why would they need taxes specific for them?