What does this person get for their $1,000,000 in taxes that you don't get? More likely, he takes a lot less from the government than most, yet he has more money confiscated per year than most of us would make in a decade. My opinion of a flat tax would go like this: How much is our budget? How many people do we have in the country? Divide the first number by the second, and send everyone a bill. I don't see why a person's taxes should be based on how successful he is in the first place. He is an American citizen, same as I. He has the same freedoms is afforded the same protections as I. If you want to place use taxes on certain items to match the user with the money supporting what is used (e.g. gas tax for roads), then fine. But taxing someone more because he works hard and is successful sounds Marxist - from each...
Kind of a silly notion.
My numbers may be a tad off, but for 2011 I believe your idea would result in a family of four receiving a federal tax bill for the amount of $35,000. You are aware this is more than the total income of a good many people, I assume?
Expecting a wealthy man to pay more in taxes than a poor man is just common sense. Like robbing banks because that is where the money is.
The real question is whether a rich man should pay a higher percentage of taxation than a poor man, and I might very probably agree with you there.
I’m curious what happened to the notion of dedicating “our lives, fortunes and sacred honor” to the survival of freedom? Very obviously the great majority of money taxed away doesn’t go to this cause, it is just wasted.
Equally obviously, IMO, a refusal to support your country financially (for its truly legitimate expenditures) is at least as unpatriotic as refusal to support it militarily. If the country goes down, what good is your money going to do you?
You seem to think “the fortune” should be off-limits.