Oh my, that was uniformed and ill thought out!
Income taxes let the truly rich (that don’t work, or participate in our earned ‘economy’)get off completely untaxed!
The truly wealthy do not have income defined as taxable, they have wealth and - thank God - The US does not (directly) have a "wealth" tax.
That to the side, a flat tax is not just a tax on sales!
Where on Earth did you ever get that idea? The NYT perhaps?
It is also a flat tax on all income, and is inherently fair because everyone pays something, unlike the present mess where taxes are used to actually give back unearned income to the people who pay nothing.
Which means, of course, that they pay less than nothing.
Not to mention the wonderfully purifying effect of ending the stunningly bloated and expensive tax system, along with the IRS.
The amount of paperwork alone saved by this would repopulate an entire rain forest. :)
Apparently you don’t read well.
I am 100% in favor of a flat tax; it’s the un-fair tax that has to be exposed for the insanity that it is. It would rob the working classes in order to benefit the ultra-wealthy.