[Las Vegas Ron]

Additionally, we all know by now that a flat tax is regressive, punishing lower income earners more than higher income earners. Lower income earners won't get much of a tax break, if any at all, while millionaires will get a colossal break.

Did you read this part of the article?

Shouldn't everyone have some skin in the game?

Besides, the real argument is that you would never in a million years get the congress to give up their ultimate power base, and accomplishing this would take an act of congress as the POTUS does not have the power.

[FredZarguna]

A flat tax is, by definition, NOT regressive. It’s not progressive. It’s — DUH — flat. The author is an economic illiterate.