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It sounds like he just wants to abolish everything. What's the evidence that these are good ideas?

>> abolish the income tax and the IRS, and

>> replace them with nothing." -Ron Paul

> What's the evidence that these are good ideas?

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2003/Hubbardtaxes.ht...

A perhaps surprising result in public finance is that the optimal or the best way to tax capital income is not to tax it at all. Paradoxically, workers are better off with a zero tax on capital income. -Dr. R. Glenn Hubbard, the Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers

It sounds like [Ron Paul] just wants to abolish everything.

Do you mean the IRS is the same thing as everything?

I was referring to his other positions (abolishing most federal agencies, withdrawing from NATO/UN, negating Roe v. Wade/gun regulation, etc.) in addition to the IRS.

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