[patrickgzill]

Bureaucracy's main purpose is to create more bureaucracy.

As a side effect, they collect taxes or issue you your driver's license, it is just a means to the end of self-perpetuation.

Eliminating the income tax and going to a much more transparent method like higher fuel taxes (everyone pays them because everyone uses transportation) or some other broadly based consumption tax, would be excellent.

[gorbachev]

Please.

There is a reason why most reasonable people don't actually seriously consider implementing such tax schemes.

I know it's hard for people with good lives and great salaries to understand why, but please ask the people who clean your desks next time you see them what would happen to him/her, if fuel was taxed higher.