You Should Have to Pay the Same Tax Rate You Demand From Others!

I whole heartedly support a flat tax. Abolish all other taxes and everybody pays the same percentage across the board. This would make it fair, everybody with a dollar in their pocket will be paying in. Lets stop targeting a certain group and make it fair (spoken from a poor person).

Here is one of my favorites "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."--Thomas Jefferson I laugh (or want to cry) when people say...we are a democracy. We are NOT a democracy...we were NEVER set up to be a democracy and we should never be a democracy. WHY? Because of this issue and others like it. The founding fathers were not stupid. They had seen and learned about the rise and falls of empires and nations. They tried to steer us away from the pit falls and dangers other countries in their long histories had fallen into. They learned from the mistakes those countries made....why can't we remember that and learn from it too? My other favorite one: "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana Not just OUR history either. But the world's history. How many people know why Rome fell? Or how the USSR failed (economicly). Or how various governments through out time did things and what it caused (good or bad). Not many. It is not taught in school much anymore and most people don't bother to learn it on their own. So we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. All of this reaching into other people's pockets is not going to end well. Why? Because sooner or later you run out of other people's money. Then what do you do? You have a society that is used to getting things for "free" and gets ticked off when they have to work for things again. A bankrupt government and a whole society that can't take care of themselves is what you get. Want to see how a political policy is going to work? Well more than likely it has been done by some country in the past...go see how it worked out for them...not just for a few years...but see how it worked out for them long term and see what good and bad effects it brought about.

Doesn't that completely disregard the aspect of proportions? I'm sure you've heard the example before: a billionaire giving half his money for taxes would still be living a fantastic life while a poor man would be living near starvation. What are your thoughts on that? Do you not agree that percentages can be misleading?

So, which do you propose doing - increasing the taxes of the lower income people or giving still more tax cuts to the rich? Either way, the economy would completely collapse as would the country. Annie

So would it not be fair to pay a certain percentage of ones income? for example (and this is seriously just an example) 10% of income goes to taxes. If you earn more, of course you pay more but it is still 10%. Like the sales taxes, the more you buy, the more sales taxes you as an individual are going to be paying but it is still the same sales tax as everyone else. It would hurt a lot of people if they were to come up with a dollar amount that everyone must pay regardless of income. There a weeks that I could not afford to part with 10.00 without seriously compromising my family while to others 10.00 is nothing. A person's earnings and ability to pay have to be considered.