Jack Kingston: “As I talk to different civic clubs and have town meetings and talk about the difference between a flat tax and a…”

“As I talk to different civic clubs and have town meetings and talk about the difference between a flat tax and a consumption tax, one of the things that I realize, speaking for myself and speaking for the folks in the audience, is we all need to have a more thorough debate on it. We need to have education. For example, if we exempt charitable contributions and the home mortgage deductions and something else, what is going to prevent us from coming back and saying, well, what about the cost of a wheelchair, the cost of a college education, prescription drugs, long-term health care, all of which are worthy causes, and underscore an important investment in public policy? If we start having those deductions again, will we not return back to as complex a Tax Code as we have now? It is possible.”