| TheRealMafoo said: Do you guys not know what a flat tax is? To use your numbers Highwaystar, the bottom 20% of the country would only be paying 5.2% of the taxes. And Montana, if you make 10 times more money, the government collects 10 times more money from you, because it took you 1/10th the effort to earn it. If person A makes $10 and hour, and person B makes $1,000 an hour, and the tax rate was 25%, the government collects $2.5 an hour from person A, and $250 from person B. That's 15 minutes of each of there times. And like "That Guy" said, we would need to streamline government, but if it becomes everyones responsibly equally (in effort, not money), then everyone would equally want to streamline it. It's that saying. There are two kinds of money. My money, and your money. People treat them very differently, and for 40% of the voter base today, it's all your money. With a flat tax, everyone will think of paying for programs from the perspective of "it's my money", and things will run vastly different imo. Oh, and Akuma, please contribute or don't post. Trolling? I expected more from you. |
I don't really believe that anyone who makes 10 times more money put forth 10 times as much effort. They just found a way to make far more money for similar effort. They probably had to be clever to work there, and they likely had to work hard, but they still don't deserve that much money. It's not me hating the rich, it's just what I see from mathematics. There comes a point where the wealthy shouldn't be complaining about taxes. Now, for example, the government was taxing a wealthy person down to middle class income, I'd definitely side with them. But if you're a millionaire, billionaire, or anyone else with large amounts of money, you probably got most of it off of other people's work, and you're far past the point of living. You're even past the point of living luxuriously. If I had the money, I'd buy a Mercedes Benz for the safety features and to look snazzy. I don't need a yacht, nor my own private island. Sorry to go off on a rant here.
Point is, capitalism is a flawed system, and it needs to change with the market. That's why it's the best system, and that's why a flat tax contradicts it.
