An Idea to Shrink the Tax Code and IRS

An idea from a political veteran via a blog post by Clark Judge:

In the course of one month, Bengazi, the IRS scandal, and the tapping of the Associated Press all broke — and the GOP couldn't do a thing with it.

The GOP should come out for a flat tax and announce that, thanks to all the administrative savings from so vastly simplifying the tax code, we'll lay off half the IRS. Get rid of all those agents they hired for Obamacare and many more. Americans hate the IRS. The complexity of the tax code is a big reason for the agency's corruption. And you get a tax code that is friendly to economic growth to boot. Tie the two issues — stagnation and corruption — together.

Commenters to Judge's post note that many conservatives have long thought the flat tax idea a good one. Given the recent exposure of IRS corruption, however, the idea may never have been as appropriate as it is today.