I totally agree with him on this one. Flat tax is the only fair way to go-—no deductions, period. And gubment remains the tax collector, which is important. I do NOT want business collecting taxes “for” the gubment. That makes business the villain. I want people to know when they are paying a tax that it is the gubment it is going to, and therefore if it is raised (as people will assuredly try to do), everyone will know who to resist.
This is the perfect plan.
The left is always screeching about people paying their “fair share”. Nothing is more fair than one flat tax percentage for all. If you don’t make much, you don’t pay much. If you make lots, you pay lots.
Everyone should have to pay something. This is fair.
When my wife and I lived on $195 a month and paid her college tuition, we paid $5 a month in taxes. I didn't object.
Since when?
He’s right - he says the poor have self respect and dignity too and don’t want to be freeloaders and non-participants - paying even a small minimal amount of whatever they earn would help them feel a part of things, might make them be a bit more concerned about how government money is spent, and give them incentive to think a little more about what the government is up to - of course many of the poor don’t feel this way and would have to pay taxes for a year or two before they would start to grasp what was going on.....