EVERYONE should have SOME SKIN in the game.
Agreed.
Rush Limbaugh was correct decades ago when he said we need to raise taxes on the poor.
Because spending is our problem. And it will never come under control until it hurts everybody equally.
It would require an Amendment, but the only broad-based, objectively fair tax that would still align with the American principle of individual liberty would be... a national sales tax.
There is nothing fair about progressive income taxes. That is simply liberals and other misguided folk confusing their personal satisfaction with some imagined subjective fairness.
Even a truly, no-exceptions flat income tax still leaves the justification for an overbearing IRS to exist. And to know how much money you make, how many dependents you have and other private info which should be none of their dang business. All of which is ammunition for further government discrimination.