Some of us can focus on both -- we tax everything AND the bottom 47% of this country doesn't pay their fair share when it comes to federal income tax.
You wouldn't know anything about that would you? Hope not anyway.
Let's say it takes a poor man with $30,000 annual income some $20,000 per year to purchase food, buy clothing, rent a modest apartment, and have an automobile.
On the other hand, let's say it takes a rich man with $30 million annual income some $20,000 per year to purchase food, buy clothing, rent a modest apartment and have an automobile (and there are people like that who are high income, low cost folks).
After basic life's expenses the poor man has $10,000 left over. The rich guy has $29,980,000 left over.
What is a fair tax for both of these men?
28% perhaps? That'd leave the poor guy with $7,200, and the rich guy with quite a bit more ~
No doubt the scale of the difference in the income of these two fellows escapes your attention, but the rich guy can easily become an investor and the poor guy can't.
Even if they have the same lifestyle their economic power is nowhere near the same.
I think a fair tax on both of these fellows is ZERO ~
We need a system that pulls revenues into the government from the economy at larger without targeting individuals. As i noted before the old tariff system did exactly that and neither the rich nor the poor in America were threatened with long jail terms for failing to cross every t and dot every i on an IRS form.
A state of liberty and freedom from excesses of the federal government requires no direct taxation of individuals ~ ever.