[Chesner]

"Really screw the poor, and greatly help the rich" "The bottom 50% pay an average of 4.4%. Flat tax will only help the $100,000 grand and up crowd. Most of you would pay more!" Those statements do not sound overly supportive of lowering the tax burden on high income earners. Forgive me. I guess I read too much into the above sentences. I get a little P O'ed and testy each year around this time.

[John Jamieson]

My point was the flat tax would not help the people who seem to support it. The same amount of money would be raised, only the distribution would change, and NOT to the advantage of the poor or middle class. I think the present distribution is about right. And I wouldn't even insist on changing the total amount, if it was being spent to defend the country (in the broadest terms) instead of "social" programs, pork, etc.