[ozarkgirl]

I'm thinking some incentive to get them to work.

I guess I'm from the "you don't work, you don't eat" crowd. :)

But say you are disabled, you still need to pay taxes, if a person's on disability, they wouldn't have alot of income and wouldn't have to pay alot.

I guess I was thinking this was about more of a use tax than an income tax. Apparently reading comprehension is not my friend. Everyone else seemed to understand it's an flat income tax.

[skeeter]

As long as there is still some sort of non-cash safety net - government cheese - I could go with a no exemptions flat tax.

Localities would have to find some other means of taxation, though. I'm afraid many of those would see an opportunity & jump into the void with some ridiculously high tax of their own.

I live in California, and know they'd be happy to take up any tax slack let go by the feds.