Want to give your Congressman a hotfoot? send him a letter that adds up the city, county, state, federal taxes that you pay. Include the sales tax and hidden taxes. Fifty percent of a loaf of bread is tax. Don't forget gasoline and cigarette taxes. Should I mention Social Security, SDI and all the other deductions. Are you taking home 50% after the government puts your wages through their wringer? Let's see, depending on the state you live in, you are working for the government somewhere close to the end of June. The serfs, that worked the land for the nobility during the middle ages, were only forced to cough-up 25 per-cent of their harvests.

    The best solution would be to eliminate the existing, hardly understandable, tax code and replace it with a 17% FLAT TAX. When the dynamic economic growth impact starts to kick in, reduce the tax proportionately. Some say it could go as low as 10%. Its simple, fair and pro-growth. it would attract capital, investment and jobs from the rest of the world. It's simple, it ends income-tax withholding, and it offers visibility and HONESTY. To protect the poor, exempt those with income under $36,800 and index for inflation.

    The flat tax should include getting rid of the double taxation on corporate profits. Also end capital gains taxes. Treat all savings the way we treat IRA's; end their double taxation.

    I would like to see citizens stand for freedom and "get mad as hell and not take it any more!"

    May you earn twice as much with half as much effort during the coming year,