No one I know of has suggested that the poor pay 10% income tax.
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You know full well the Limbaugh line of thought is that EVERYONE pay something.
I believe that everyone SHOULD pay something. If you want to take out of the pot then you sure as hell better be putting something into the pot.
That is the problem with social security. So many people take more out then they put in.
Do you believe that someone who doesn’t contribute to society should be able to benefit from what others pay into society?
To me that sounds like liberal talk.
The problem is that people who don't pay don't have any qualms about raising taxes on those who do. So the result is that the tax will never be a pittance.
Mind you, people who don't pay income taxes do in fact pay taxes, they just don't always realize that they do. Raise taxes on the rich and it just gets rolled into the cost of doing business and you pay it when you buy your gallon of milk at the store. Or your gallon of gas at the pump.
So people are kidding themselves when they think they can shift the tax to the very rich because it comes right back to them either directly in the price of goods or indirectly when their brother-in-law can't find a job.
So I've usually favored a flat tax, with an amount equivalent to the minimum wage tax free. Every dollar after whatever that first amount is, taxed the same whether its $1 or $1000000. That way everyone has skin in the game when it comes to choosing a fair tax rate.
Or, alternatively, lower the income tax rate to the same as the capital gains rate. Now Romney and his secretary both pay 15%.