flat tax

I get that flat taxes aren't completely fair, because you'll still have people paying much more for the same amount of government services.

I'd like to propose a flat tax on all of our time. Each of us has to give the government 15 percent of our spare time. If you work 40 hours a week, you have to spend 15 percent of the remaining 128 hours (or 19.2 hours) directing traffic, filing papers for the IRS, digging ditches, filling in pot holes, fighting fires....

This will please the socialists (as if that's possible) because everyone starts out with an equal amount of time. If someone works longer hours, they're rewarded by getting a little more money in their paycheck...and don't have to work towards their "tax time" as much.

You work 50 hours - you only owe the government 17 hours of work. You work 60 hours - you owe less...

It'd be interesting to see who then starts fighting for lower taxes.