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If you eliminate some deductions, just eliminate them all, even the standard deduction. They are all ways government takes power. There needs to be a bottom bracket no matter what, even if you are poor you need to pay your "share" so you have some skin in the game. I'm personally for one simple flat tax rate for everybody, no deductions everybody has burden. If you are low income don't worry, your 15% of little is not very much and you still will get much more back with all the welfare programs. Now though you can honestly complain about the taxes you pay, right now 46-47% of households pay no income tax or actually make income on the "tax".
Oh and that would make the IRS virtually unnecessary, along with a large portion of what congress does with making an impossible tax code, not to mention lawyers, accountants, and millions of hours of wasted productivity by a nation screwing around with paperwork.
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