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On 23/01/2010 10:20 AM, BAR wrote:
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On 22/01/2010 11:54 AM, nom=de=plume wrote:
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:40:09 -0500,
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The top brackets ought to be paying 49%, and there should be no cap on
earnings subject to social security and medicare taxes.

As long as the top 1% controls 50% of the campaign contributions and
100% of the media you won't see that. They may pass that as the
published top rate but there will be enough tax shelters and loopholes
so they won't actually pay that.
The government has a long rich history of using the tax code to drive
social policy. If you do politically correct things you get tax
breaks, big ones.

Is why there will never be a flat tax. Taxation is the ultimate control.

A flat tax is regressive.

You know squat about economics. Flat tax is linear and proportional.

I am trying to figure out how 10% for guy A is different then 10% for
guy B?

I have a feeling that those who hold the belief that a flat tax is
regressive look at what guy A and guy B have left after being taxed at a
flat rate and that is where they see the "regressiveness."

One is left with $90K, the other with $9K, so? $9K earner didn't work
as hard, or as smart or didn't provide enough value in the services
provided. Surely didn't invest in themselves. Yet they pay as a fixed
percentage as they still needed government roads, education etc. for
what they did get. Thus a flat tax is fair to society.

I agree that the concept is fair but, the application of a flat tax will
be just as complicated as the tax system we have now in the US. What
will happen is that the classifying of income will become the key issue.
The only solution is a constitutional amendment that implements the flat
tax and the abolishment of the IRS in its current form or any future
form.

The only way for the government to increase revenue from income taxes
would be to grow the economy by increasing employment.