A flat tax and a minimum wage. Simultaneously. I see. So every time the government raised taxes they could raise the minimum wage to compensate for the extra burden? Are you aware of the effects a minimum wage has on employment and the economy?

"There is no “free lunch” when the government mandates a minimum wage. If the government requires that certain workers be paid higher wages, then businesses make adjustments to pay for the added costs, such as reducing hiring, cutting employee work hours, reducing benefits, and charging higher prices." Or any combination thereof. Minimum wage laws are a barnacle on the face of humanity. Here. read this:

https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/negative-effects-minimum-wage-laws

And this:

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba550/

I can do this all day, but you get the idea.

As for a 'flat tax', good idea. Divide the government budget total among the taxpayers and send them each a bill for the same amount. Ever notice how government is the only 'business' that charges you based on your earnings? Imagine ordering a hamburger and being charged based on your earnings. Not right, right? So why then is it right for government to charge some more than others based on what they earn? We all get the same levels of government regardless of how much we pay, right? Right? And once these freeloaders find out how much their government actually costs, that'll make a small government capitalist out of them. Once they actually 'feel the Bern' (geddit? Feel the... Bern?), all that wonderful socialist rhetoric will suddenly grow a 'sticker-shock' price tag. Mmm-hmm.

Larry, idealistically, ending minimum wage would grant a free market and the consumers to put a value on goods and services. Yes. But, but, but, when we have this endless open immigration policy, the newcomers can be used to undercut the citizens of our workforce; one billion socialists illegal aliens with no work skills, no education, and no hesitancy to steel everything we have built, would rush our border for $1/hour and the rest of us citizens would be camping out under picnic tables.

I'm afraid we need a WALL and minimum wages until we resolve our immigration crisis.

How do we get Congress to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution that reflects both the Laffer Curve and the Armey Curve to make way for an efficient constitutionally limited government? I say we auction off the bureaucracies in the federal and state governments.

The 600 bureaucracies of "experts" under the Executive Branch, (virtually an unconstitutional unelected 4th branch of government), must go. The courts defer to them, the congress abdicates its authority to them; this is ridiculous. This is a socialist, centralized planned economy. Where has our representative republic gone?

Socialism is a voluntary symbiotic relationship between the arrogant and the apathetic.