[wyager]

While I agree that a flat tax is drastically superior to our current convoluted tax scale, it would still have many unfortunate depressant effects. When you introduce friction at every trade, you hurt the market's ability to reach an optimum. This could never happen in the US (or any country that follows the Geneva convention, since it forbids revocation of citizenship), but it would be extremely interesting to have a small nation where the only tax was a constant head tax, like $X thousand/person/year. All of a sudden, many incentives that don't currently line up would start to.