The vast majority of the populace ( except for big tax cheats! ) pay taxes! Even most TAX CHEATS pay some taxes.
The people who don't pay ANY taxes, are the scroungers who get TAX REBATES on money they NEVER paid in and the welfare mooches.
Forget the "SOAK THE RICH"/THE RICH PAY NOTHING crap, here.
Can the extremely wealthy hide their money? Yes, to some extent, but NOT all of it.
Do some major companies and yes, even smaller ones who do mostly cash transactions pay almost nothing to nothing? YES. But THAT isn't what you're talking about.
What I’m talking about is the people who use legal tax avoidance by paying say $200,000 to get a reduction in taxes. If they’d only have to pay $100,000 on the flat tax, they’d do it. Oil and tax leasing plans would suffer perhaps. Oh well.
And I wasn’t talking just about people who pay none (some hedge funders) but people who pay some in other tax reducing ventures who may find it more profitable for them to pay the flat tax.