Also, while i'm wary about a flat tax.
What we do need is a locked tax.
That is, say you decide that the rich get more then the poor and therefore have to pay a 33% tax while the poor pay a 11% tax.
For every 3% you raise a rich person's tax you should have to raise a poor person's tax 1%. Furthermore, there should be no more "sin" taxes or "behavior" taxes.
Right now government and taxes and spending gets out of control because it's way to easy to say "this group should pay more taxes!" "People hate smokers right? Lets increase the taxes on cigarretes!"
etc.
At least those who want a flat tax are doing so because they think it's fair, unlike most liberals who's position seems to be the rich people's fair amount of tax is 3% higher then it is at any particular time.
Find a percentage you think is fair, and stick with it. Otherwise everyones taxes get too high and the government wastes too much money because they pit people against each other.
