[TexasGunLover]

They pay sales taxes and other non-income taxes and fees and payroll taxes if they work. So, the money they get back is from those taxes they payed. Everybody is getting back money that was payed in the form of one tax or another. I could be wrong.

The point is, anything other than a flat tax is ridiculously unfair. It's absurd to expect the rich to pay more than the poor. If Bill Gates is going to get taxed at 49% on his income then that single mother making $20,000 a year should get taxed at the exact same rate.

[Consort]

The point is, anything other than a flat tax is ridiculously unfair.

I'm all for scrapping the whole tax code.

[cherry]

"The point is, anything other than a flat tax is ridiculously unfair. It's absurd to expect the rich to pay more than the poor. If Bill Gates is going to get taxed at 49% on his income then that single mother making $20,000 a year should get taxed at the exact same rate."

I wouldn't go that far.....

I think the rich thru their various devices really, really do get the best piece of the pie in this country....

tax investments for vacation homes, charitable contributions to their favorite leftist organizations, jetting everywhere for meetings....just read into the current fiasco at the Nature conservancy.....rich people getting special deals after donating to the charity....

the Middle income people...the working people...the people that neither get free health care or summer camps for their kids, who don't get college help, who can't deduct their "business expenses" because they never reach the threshold of the 2%....

the middle income folk are dying and no one gives a damn...

What I think our govt should do since they are in the social engineering business is to reward the average Joe/Jill who works, raises kids, pays taxes, maintains a marriage and a good family.....but that I guess is asking too much....