[humanrebar]

> ...I'm not sure why it has to be couched it divisive left-right rhetoric

The right has been floating flat and simplified tax schemes for decades, including consumption taxes. For example, Hermain Cain made a 9-9-9 Plan a central policy of his campaign.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%E2%80%939%E2%80%939_Plan

[jeromegv]

Floating for decades, but they were controlling the senate, the congress, and the presidency, and I have yet to see it enacted.

[humanrebar]

Guess which President Trumps aren't particularly interested in substantial policy reform as much as picking fights on irrelevant cultural issues.