Weena wrote:
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One of the main problems with a flat tax is that essential goods and services (food, clothes, housing, etc) consume a much higher percentage of the income of poorer people than rich people. There's a huge difference in the relative impact of a 10% tax on a single parent with 2 kids, paying rent and earning $15k per year and on a couple with no kids, who own their home and earn $200k per year.
$4 a gallon gasoline will affect the $15k earner more than $200k earners too.
Should we charge someone who makes more, more for the gallon of gas, because they can afford to pay more for it?
You mean solutions like 'ending our dependence on foreign oil' by NOT drilling in our own reserves but "investing" 2 billion in Brazil drilling their reserves is hurting poor people? You must not have gotten the memo, only evil, hateful, stupid republicans pull bone-headed moves like that.
"Magical thinking" is continuing to suggest more shell game tax/regulation schemes (cap and trade...really?) in response to the assertion that we need more transparency in the system.
Your Pal,
Jubber
