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Pan, I don't necessarily disagree with a flat tax, but you seem to be contradicting yourself on this one. Use the gasoline tax as an example. It is like a flat tax, everyone pays the same percentage of their fuel costs in taxes, yet as you stated, this hurts the lower income people more. A flat tax would have the same effect on lower income folk. Someone making $30,000 and paying 17% would be left with $24,900 while someone making $3,000,000 would be left with $2,490,000.
If a flat tax were implemented the rich would end up paying much less and the poor would be paying much more. I think what you want is a progressive tax, like we have now, just more progressive. That would ensure that the rich pay their "fair share" and that the poor don't get shafted.
Another alternative is to do away with income taxes all together and rely on a value-added (sales) tax. This way people only pay taxes based on their consumption. The rich would obviously pay more $$ in taxes here, but at the same time would be paying a lower percentage of their income than poor people.
Either way you look at it, it's unfair to someone.
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