A Lesson from the Mormons

The answer is a flat tax. As most familiar with the religion know, members of the LDS faith pay 10 percent of their annual increase to the Church as tithing. That money goes to building temples, meeting houses, stake houses (not steak houses...mmmm steak), printing Books of Mormon and all the other materials that the Church uses. Regardless of income amount, roughly 13 million members pay the same portion of their income, and the economic growth--let alone the spiritual growth--of the Church has grown astronomically. Without certainty of any empirical data, an LDS temple costs several million dollars to build. Imagine if 300+ million U.S. citizens were paying the same portion of their income in taxes. What could be accomplished? That all depends, I guess, on whose running the system: Turbo Tax Guru Tiny Tim of the Elven Folk need not apply.