[MacDorcha]

So, using a Flat Tax or Fair Tax would actually force these “protestors” to stay legit.

Yet another reason to have it!

I’m noting that 1/6 not paying is merely 1/50th the taxes.

Demographically speaking, that’s about 1 in 4 lower-middle class people. The key demographic for the Democratic party (vote-wise).

If the Middle Class had done this, the impact would have been alot bigger. But then, the middle class isn’t (as a whole) buying the “Bush Lied, People Died” liberal media...

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[eyedigress]

Agreed! The Fair tax would end all loopholes.

[Kellis91789]

How do you figure “1/50th” of the taxes owed ?

I think the IRS statement is only in regards to personal income taxes. So a $346B tax gap compared to the roughly $1T personal income taxes actually paid, is big factor. More like 1/4th of the personal income taxes the IRS expects.

So 1/6th of the poeple evading results in 1/4th of the tax revenues as a shortfall. So it is above-average incomes, not lower incomes, that are evading.

[pnh102]

So, using a Flat Tax or Fair Tax would actually force these “protestors” to stay legit.

The same way gun laws force crooks to stay legit?