Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, as I predicted when the IRS “scandal” first broke. But it’s interesting to see who’s roaring out of the gate with the “abolish the IRS/flat tax” revival, per Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire today:
“We ought to abolish the IRS and instead move to a simple flat tax, where the average American can fill out our taxes on a postcard.”
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), in an interview with Fox News, offering his solution to the controversy of the IRS targeting conservatives groups.
Here’s a snippet of video. It amuses me that both interviewer and interviewee are acting like this is some sort of new, cool idea, instead of what it is: one of the oldest chestnuts in the conservative pantry.
The fact that it’s Cruz flogging this “idea” will get it a bullet on the conservative political charts, no doubt. Nobody wants to get to the left of Joe McCarthy.
