[artplumber]

some more thoughts:

eliminate the deduction for children even if the flat tax doesn't get passed. Come up with an estimate of how much they cost the state, and create a penalty per child, if parents don't meet minimum income/tax paid levels.

If your city requires additional jail space or power plant etc, it has to be built in that city's limits. This might apply to water as well. This will encourage all the no coal/oil and no nuclear folks to make some decisions.

Healthcare is easy. Go back to cash. People get to decide what they want to know about/deal with. Improved savings rate (because one has to "save for a rainy day" again) and unnecessary tests get booted. People might actually start to take better care of themselves. The good MD's will naturally rise to the top, because their patients will live longer with fewer tests/mistakes etc. And MD's won't be presented with patients that come to appointments but don't follow any of the recommendations (ie if the patients don't want to listen to the doc, they'll have to pay a fee for a waste of time=waste of their money not the insurance company's money). Tort reform will help especially with unnecessary testing. Can offer a basic "physical" by physician extenders at reduced fee schedule/on the govt dole. Maybe some form of VA-like system for Medicaid only persons. MD's can go back to giving charity care (which there was plenty of before Medicare), and the patients can also realize when they are actually getting free care.