. I feel that the richer groups that have benefited most should pay the most.
Both rate & amount? A fixed rate assures more paid by higher income brackets.
I will support any tax of any kind that moves the distribution of tax burden in the direction that I think it has to go.
Under the proposed NRST, everyone pays a lower rate than currently. If that doesn't suit you, well I guess you can go out and vote socialist, they will be happy to accomodate your desires to punish those who earn more. Refer Democrats Planning for Rise of Total Federal Tax Rate to 37% from current 23%.
OTOH the NRST fixes the maximum rate of taxation at 23% of expenditure as compared to the combinded marginal tax rates on payroll & personal income of the 1997 tax law,
refer: What's so fair about a tax on income? by Dan Mastromarco LLM:
or the Effective total federal tax rate as a function of expenditure under the NRST
Go which ever way you want, I see the NRST as being superior no matter how one slices it.