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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 02:27 PM
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88. Yes, it can be used as an incentive, but that is not its prime point.
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 02:28 PM by Taxloss
Flat tax would simply channel money upwards. Just look at its supporters - the rich. Remember, they control, as a club, how much they are paid. They will simply increase their own pay to ameliorate the effect. The workers will be screwed, working harder, less able to achieve prosperity, and paying a rich man's salary.

A flat tax, with all the myriad exemptions people here are talking about, would not come close to providing enough money to fund government unless it was set extremely high. Bingo - you have, inequitably, divided America into two.

edited for typo
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