With a flat tax you also get more from the super rich millionaires and billionaires...drink! They have so many loopholes it is true only the little people pay taxes.
According to Internal Revenue Service data, filers with $35,000 in taxable income paid about 10 percent of that income in taxes on average, while filers at $200,000 in taxable income paid 24 percent of their income to the IRS in 2007.