But fear, uncertainty, and doubt compels him to know for a fact that we are at if not past the tipping point of letting the rich win it all!! Dogs and cats living in the streets. Mayhem is at the door. The sky will fall any moment!! A non progressive tax like "all the other non-progressive taxes we already have" would be the last straw! This one progressive tax is the only thing saving us from hell on earth. We must defend it at all costs!And this is a problem how?
Does Joe have less right to educate himself and apply himself and become wealthy than Mitt had that right? If I did what I had to do to work my way through college--which I did--and qualified for a nice income, is it unfair that I make more than my classmate who chose to drop out of highschool?
But the topic here is the flat tax. And yes, those who were motivated enough and did what they had to do to achieve sufficient wealth that most of their income is from capital gains will pay a lower percentage on their earned income than will those who work strictly for wages but earn the same amount.
A flat tax would fix that by applying the same percentage equally across the board on all earned income regardless of how it is earned.
Do you miss the point intentionally or has the Kool-Ade addled your brain? Or worse. Yes, we are focused here on the flat tax and I have stated such a tax will put the last nail into the coffin of democracy in America. Election are bought, so are members of Congress and State Legislatures. Very soon we will reach the tipping point and the rule of law will be written by the rich, for the rich and enforced by the rich. In fact we're probably there now.
But your point made no sense whatsoever dear. It does not logically follow that a flat tax will allow anybody to buy elections more than does the progressive tax. I did my best to explain how a flat tax takes the politics out of the tax code far better than does any other system of taxation.
The flat tax would be an important first step in returning the power to the people.
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