Flat Tax

Here’s what I don’t understand. We make our tax code so complicated that only armies of accountants and tax lawyers can figure it out. Why?

Let’s keep it simple.

Imagine every corporation pays a flat 25% tax on its profits. No special deals. No political favors. No loopholes. Just one number.

Take ExxonMobil as an example. If they made $145 billion in profits, a 25% tax would generate over $36 billion for the American people from one company alone.

Now multiply that across every profitable corporation in America—and every foreign corporation earning profits here. You’re suddenly talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue.

That revenue could help pay for infrastructure, education, healthcare, veterans, and reducing the national debt without constantly asking working families to shoulder a bigger burden.

The key is fairness. If you’re a small business, you shouldn’t need a team of accountants just to understand your taxes. If you’re a Fortune 500 company, you shouldn’t be able to avoid paying your fair share because you have better lawyers than everyone else.

A flat corporate tax isn’t about punishing success. I want businesses to succeed. Successful businesses create jobs, invest in communities, and drive innovation. But success comes with responsibility. If you profit from America’s workers, roads, courts, military, and markets, then helping pay for those things is part of the deal.

The tax code shouldn’t be a game that only the biggest players know how to win. It should be transparent, predictable, and fair.

We don’t need a thousand pages of exceptions. We need a system every American can understand.

Simple. Fair. Transparent.

That’s the kind of government people can actually trust.

One note: if you’re using this publicly, it’s best to avoid claiming that this approach would definitely produce enough revenue to fund specific programs unless you’ve run the numbers. Framing it as a proposal that could simplify the system and potentially raise substantial revenue is more accurate and harder for critics to dismiss.