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Johnwk asks, "Why does senator Cruz support this immoral and arbitrary tax?"
The answer is simple. A flat tax would lessen the tax bill for the wealthiest and attempt to make up the revenue loss by increasing taxes on the lower income citizens.
It's just the old upward income redistribution game.
I don't know what is in the mind of Senator Cruz. Hopefully it is not what you suggest. Additionally, what you suggest above does not correspond to the math or facts. A flat tax on profits, gains, salaries and other lawfully earned "incomes" extracts far more money from those who have a higher "income" than those who are less ambitious and are content with earning less income than our nation's most productive citizens. In fact, a tax upon "incomes" punishes our nation's most productive citizens for being productive.
I do not buy into your rich vs poor argument.
JWK
“…..with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities“. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address