[Pearls Before Swine]

I'm still working out in my mind how income tax deductions and selective bailouts square with the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.

How do you feel about progressive taxation and the 14th?

[ApplegateRanch]

How do you feel about progressive taxation and the 14th?

Doesn't bother me a bit. If they want to tax Progressives a 100% rate, it serves them Left!

[JustSurrounded]

Well, since you mention it, the whole things is pretty much a mess, isn't it?

Just because the 16th says we can, I'm not really keen on federal income tax -- thinking the states should fund the federal budget and the citizens fund the states. And, heretically, I think, given a federal income tax, it should be a flat rate across the board, no deductions -- straightforward government support by the honest labor if its citizens. Idealistic and unworkable.