[napscoordinator]

I think that everyone should be paying something. Not paying anything like yourself is not good when we need to have a military, roads etc. However 23 percent is way too much. 10 percent across the board is much better and yes you would have to pay the 10 percent to...God forbid you support the United States.

[baybabe]

Ah, but it’s not 23% for most people. That’s merely the marginal tax rate. What you actually pay is the effective tax rate and that is much lower - something like half the marginal rate for many if not most people.

Under the FairTax many things are not taxed which goes to drastically lower your effective tax rate. Many of these are detailed in post #282 on this thread.